M.A. 1843; V. of Ovingham 1841–47; V. of Stamfordham 1847 to
death; author of many articles in _Transactions of Tyneside
Naturalists field club_. _d._ Newcastle 28 Feb. 1885 in 71 year.
BIGGS, JAMES. _b._ Canterbury; bookseller at 18 Strand, London,
removed to 421 Strand; started 13 May 1843 _The Family Herald or
useful information and amusement for the million_ in weekly
numbers and monthly parts, this paper in a few years attained a
circulation of 260,000 copies per week; founded Biggs’s Charity
1863 for granting pensions of £10 a year to printers and their
widows over 55 years of age. _d._ 421 Strand, London 22 May 1859
aged 64, leaving nearly £50,000 in legacies to about 300 charities
and individuals.
BIGGS, JOHN. _b._ Leicester 1801; manufacturer at Leicester; mayor
1840, 1847 and 1855; M.P. for Leicester 1856–1862; took out a
patent for lacemaking 1844. _d._ Leicester 4 June 1871.
BIGGS, WILLIAM. _b._ Leicester 1805; mayor of Leicester 1842 and
1849; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 9 July 1852 to 21 March
1857. _d._ Upper Parliament st. Liverpool 3 Oct. 1881 in 77 year.
BIGLAND, WILSON BRADDYLL. _b._ Bigland hall, Holker, Lancashire 20
July 1788; entered navy 21 Oct. 1801; captain 6 March 1821;
retired V.A. 2 Oct. 1857; K.H. 25 Jany. 1836. _d._ Lansdowne
place, Leamington 19 Nov. 1858.
BIGNOLD, SIR SAMUEL (_youngest son of Thomas Bignold of Norwich,
banker_). _b._ Norwich 13 Oct. 1791; secretary of Norwich Union
Fire insurance company 1814 and of Norwich Union Life insurance
company 1818; sheriff of Norwich 1830 and mayor 1833, 1848, 1853
and 1873; knighted by the Queen at St. James’s Palace 3 May 1854;
M.P. for Norwich 1854–1857. (_m._ 1815 Elizabeth only child of Wm.
Atkins of Ridlington, Norfolk, she _d._ 30 March 1860). _d._
Surrey st. Norwich 2 Jany. 1875. _I.L.N. lx_, 181, 189 (1872),
_portrait_.
BIGSBY, JOHN JEREMIAH (_eld. son of John Bigsby of Nottingham,
physician 1760–1844_). _b._ Nottingham; baptised at St. Peter’s
church 14 Aug. 1792; ed. at Univ. of Edin., M.D. 1814; assistant
surgeon in the army 14 March 1816; physician at Newark 1827–46;
lived in London 1846 to death; F.G.S. 1823, Murchison medallist
1874, founded Bigsby gold medal 1877; F.R.G.S. 1850; F.R.S. 3 June
1869; author of _The shoe and canoe, or pictures of travel in the
Canadas 2 vols._ 1850; _Thesaurus Siluricus the flora and fauna of
the Silurian period_ 1868; _Thesaurus Devonico-Carboniferus the
flora and fauna of the Devonian and Carboniferous periods_ 1878.
_d._ 89 Gloucester place, Portman sq. London 10 Feb. 1881.
_Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxxvii_, 39–41 (1881).
BIGSBY, ROBERT (_only son of Robert Bigsby 1764–1825, registrar of
archdeaconry of Nottingham_). _b._ Castle gate, Nottingham 11
April 1806; ed. at Repton school; a virtuoso or collector of
relics and memorials of illustrious characters; author of _The
triumph of Drake, a poem_ 1839; _Miscellaneous poems and essays_
1842; _Visions of the times of old, or the antiquarian enthusiast
3 vols._ 1848; _Ombo, a dramatic romance in 12 acts_ 1853;
_Historical and topographical description of Repton_ 1854;
_Irminsula, or the great pillar, a mythological research_ 1864;
_Memoir of the order of St. John of Jerusalem_ 1869 and 10 other
books; granted civil list pension of £100 16 Jany. 1860; member of
order of St. John of Jerusalem; F.S.A., F.R.S.; a knight of St.
James of Portugal. _d._ 4 Beaufort terrace, Peckham Rye, London 27
Sep. 1873. _The Freemason 18 Oct. 1873 p._ 677.
BILBY, THOMAS. _b._ Southampton 1794; musical composer; best known
as composer of the hymn tune called “Joyful.” _d._ Islington,
London 24 Sep. 1872.
BILLER, GEORGE. _b._ 20 Nov. 1811; solicitor in London; wrote many
letters to _The Church Advocate_ and other papers on Priestly
Absolution; author of _Rhymes, reasons and recollections from the
common-place books of a Sexagenarian_ 1876; _A few suggestions on
Prayer book reform_ 1878. _d._ 43 Agate road, Hammersmith 24 April
1885.
BILLING, ARCHIBALD (_son of Theodore Billing of Cromlyn, co.
Dublin_). _b._ Cromlyn 10 Jany. 1791; ed. at Trin. coll. Dub.,
B.A. 1811, M.B. 1814, M.A. and M.D. 1818; incorporated M.D. at
Oxford 22 Oct. 1818; physician in London 1818 to death; F.R.C.P.
22 Dec. 1819, Censor 1823, Consiliarius 1852 and 1855–57; the
first in London to organise a system of practical teaching at the
bedside and to give it full effect by regular clinical lectures;
physician to London Hospital 2 July 1822 to 4 June 1845; member of
senate of Univ. of London 1836 to death; F.R.S. 6 June 1844;
author of _First principles of medicine_ 1831, _6 ed._ 1868; _On
the treatment of Asiatic cholera_ 1848; _Practical observations on
diseases of the lungs and heart_ 1852; _The science of gems,
jewels, coins and medals_ 1867. _d._ 34 Park lane, London 2 Sep.
1881. _Medical Circular i_, 243–45 (1852), _portrait_; _I.L.N.
lxxix_, 272 (1881), _portrait_; _Graphic xxiv_, 389 (1881),
_portrait_.
BILLING, RICHARD ANNESLEY. _b._ 1814; called to bar in Ireland Nov.
1839; practised at Dublin; admitted to bar at Melbourne 23 Oct.
1856; lecturer in law at Melbourne Univ.; Q.C. 1878; county court
judge for western division of Victoria April 1882 to death. _d._
Melbourne 21 June 1882.
BILLINGE, MARY (_dau. of Charles Billinge of Eccleston near
Prescot_). _b._ Eccleston 6 Nov. 1772. _d._ Edge lane, Liverpool
20 Dec. 1863 aged 91, but generally reputed to be 112 and so
recorded in the 26th report of the Registrar General. _W. J.
Thoms’s Human longevity_ (1873) 34–37, 105–13.
BILLINGS, ELKANAH (_2 son of Bradish Billings, of Gloucester near
Ottawa, then called Bytown, farmer_). _b._ Gloucester 5 May 1820;
ed. at Ottawa and Potsdam in state of New York; admitted attorney
at Toronto 1844; called to bar at Toronto 1845; practised at
Ottawa 1845–48, and at Renfrew 1849–52; edited the _Citizen_ paper
at Ottawa 1852–55; palæontologist to Geological survey of Canada
at Montreal 1 Aug. 1856 to death; visited Europe 1858; F.G.S.
April 1858; published the _Canadian Naturalist_ Feb. 1856, edited
the first vol. and wrote 55 out of the 63 papers in it;
contributed to _Silliman’s Journal_; presented his fine collection
of Star fishes, Cystideans and Crinoids to museum of Geological
survey of Canada. _d._ Montreal 14 June 1876. _Canadian Naturalist
viii_, 251–61 (1878); _Quarterly journal of Geol. Soc. xxxiii_,
48–50 (1877).
BILLINGS, ROBERT WILLIAM. _b._ London 1813; pupil of John Britton,
topographical draughtsman 1813–20; illustrated Godwin’s _History
of St. Paul’s Cathedral_ 1837; _Illustrations of the Temple
Church, London_, 1838; _Baronial and ecclesiastical antiquities of
Scotland 240 illustrations 4 vols._ 1845–52; restored the chapel
of Edinburgh Castle; built Castle Wemyss, Renfrewshire. _d._ The
Moulinère, Putney, Surrey 14 Nov. 1874. _Builder xxxii_, 982, 1035
(1874).
BILLINGTON, WILLIAM (_son of a contractor for road making_). _b._
the Yew Trees, Samlesbury near Blackburn 1827; worked in cotton
mills at Blackburn 1839; a beerseller at Blackburn; wrote a ballad
called _Th’ Shurat Weyvur_ 14,000 copies of which were sold at
time of Lancashire cotton famine; author of _Sheen and shade_
1861; _Lancashire poems with other sketches_ 1883, some copies of
which have a _portrait_ of him. _d._ 2 Bradshaw st. Blackburn 3
Jany. 1884 aged 56.
BINDLEY, CHARLES. _b._ 1796; author of following books all written
under pseudonym of Harry Hieover; _Stable talk and table talk, 2
vols._ 1845–46, _portrait_; _The pocket and the stud_ 1848,
_portrait_; _The stud for practical purposes and practical men_
1849; _Practical horsemanship_ 1850; _The hunting field_ 1850;
_Bipeds and quadrupeds_ 1853; _Sporting facts and sporting
fancies_ 1853; _The world how to square it_ 1854; _Hints to
horsemen_ 1856; _Precept and practice_ 1857; _The sportsman’s
friend in a frost_ 1857; _The sporting world_ 1858 and _Things
worth knowing about horses_ 1859. _d._ at house of Sir Thomas
Barrett-Lennard, 7 Lewes crescent, Brighton 12 Feb. 1859.
BINDON, SAMUEL HENRY. _b._ Ireland 1812; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin,
B.A. 1835; called to Irish bar Nov. 1838; practised at Dublin;
went out to Victoria 1855; called to bar at Melbourne 22 May 1855;
member of legislative assembly of Victoria 1864–69; minister of
justice 1866–1869; county court judge at Sale, Victoria 1869 to
death except a short time, during which the Berry ministry took
all the judges of county courts off the bench, the day when this
was done 9 Jany. 1878 was known as _Black Wednesday_; had a
prominent share in establishment of technological classes in large
places. _d._ Melbourne 1 Aug. 1879 in 67 year.
BINFIELD, JOHN BILSON (_son of Mr. Binfield of Reading, organist who
d. 1839_). _b._ Reading 1805; organist of St. Giles’s church
Reading many years; author of _The choral service of the Church_
1846; editor and compiler of _The Reading psalmody_ 1847; set Dean
Milman’s _Martyr of Antioch_ to music. _d._ Devizes 28 June 1875.
BINGE, JOHN BULL (_son of a Sheffield cutler_). First appeared in
London May 1839 at Strand theatre in Lee’s adaptation of Auber’s
opera _The fairy lake_; sang at Covent Garden theatre 1840–42;
known as The singing mouse from his small voice; kept a toyshop in
the Lowther Arcade; sec. to Covent Garden theatrical fund 1869 to
death. _d._ New Malden, Surrey 21 Nov. 1878 aged about 63.
BINGHAM, CHARLES. _b._ 1 June 1815; 2 lieut. R.A. 20 June 1832;
brigade major at Woolwich 1849–54; deputy adjutant general to R.A.
1 April 1858 to death; colonel R.A. 20 Jany. 1863 to death. (_m._
13 March 1841 Williamina Henrietta dau. of John Mackintosh, M.D.
of Edinburgh, she was granted a civil list pension of £150, 19
June 1865). _d._ Brighton 6 April 1864.
BINGHAM, REV. CHARLES WILLIAM (_youngest son of Rev. Wm. Bingham
1771–1810, R. of Cameley, Somerset_). _b._ 28 Sep. 1810; ed. at
New coll. Ox., fellow, B.A. 1833, M.A. 1836; V. of Sydling St.
Nicholas Dorset 1838–46; R. of Melcombe Horsey, Dorset 23 Feb.
1842 to death; preb. of Salisbury 1876 to death; author of
_Commentaries on the four last books of the Pentateuch translated
from the Latin of John Calvin 4 vols._ 1852–55; a frequent
contributor to _Notes and Queries_ 1850 to death. _d._ Bingham’s
Melcombe 1 Dec. 1881.
BINGHAM, HENRY. Second lieut. 60 Rifles 30 April 1827, lieut. col.
19 June 1857 to 1865; inspecting field officer 1865–70; M.G. 6
March 1868. _d._ Wolverton house, co. Dublin 1 Oct. 1878.
BINGHAM, PEREGRINE (_elder son of Rev. Peregrine Bingham 1754–1826,
R. of Edmundesham, Dorset_). _b._ 1788; ed. at Winchester and
Magd. coll. Ox., B.A. 1810; barrister M.T. 27 Nov. 1818; recorder
of Southampton 5 Nov. 1830 to July 1840; contested Southampton 9
Jany. 1835; police magistrate at Worship st. London 1841, at Great
Marlborough st. 1846–60; lived at 35 Gordon square, London 1842 to
death; author of _The law and practice of judgments and
executions_ 1815; _The law of infancy and coverture_ 1816; _A
system of shorthand_ 1821; _Reports of cases in Court of Common
Pleas and other courts 10 vols._ 1824–34; _New cases in the Court
of Common Pleas and other courts 6 vols._ 1835–41; one of chief
contributors to _Westminster Review_, wrote 5 articles in the
first number Jany. 1824. _d._ 35 Gordon sq. London 1 Nov. 1864.
BINGHAM, REV. RICHARD (_son of Rev. Isaac Moody Bingham, R. of
Runwell, Essex who d. 1807_). _b._ 1 April 1765; ed. at Winchester
and New coll. Ox., fellow, B.A. 1787, B.C.L. 1801; P.C. of Trinity
church, Gosport 1790 to death; V. of Great Hale, Lincs. 1796 to
death; preb. of Chichester cathedral 22 July 1807 to death;
sentenced to 6 months imprisonment in county gaol at Winchester 26
Nov. 1813 for having illegally obtained a license for a public
house when no such house was in existence; published by
subscription third ed. of Joseph Bingham’s _Origines
Ecclesiasticæ_ 1829. _d._ Newhouse, Gosport 18 July 1858.
_Proceedings in a trial, the King against Rev. Richard Bingham_
1814.
BINGHAM, REV. RICHARD (_eld. son of the preceding_). _b._ 1798; ed.
at Magd. hall Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1827; C. of Trinity church,
Gosport 1821–43; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Harwood, Bolton 1844–52; C. of
St. Mary’s Marylebone 1853–56; P.C. of Queenborough, Kent 1856–70;
edited _The works of the Rev. Joseph Bingham 10 vols., Clarendon
Press Oxford_ 1855; author of _Liturgia Recusa or suggestions for
revising the services of the United church of England and Ireland_
1860; _Liturgiæ recusæ exemplar, The Prayer book as it might be_
1863; _The Gospel according to Isaiah_ 1870; _Hymnologia
Christiana Latina_ 1871. _d._ Sutton, Surrey 22 Jany. 1872.
BINGHAM, RICHARD CAMDEN. _b._ 2 May 1801; chargé d´affaires at
Venezuela 23 Nov. 1852 to 31 Aug. 1858. _d._ 23 Jany. 1872.
BINNEY, EDWARD WILLIAM. _b._ Morton, Notts. 1812; solicitor at
Manchester 1836; conducted the case for the Claimant in the great
Chadwick law suit Nov. 1847; a paraffin oil manufacturer in
Scotland; chief founder and sec. of Manchester geological society
Oct. 1838, pres. 1857–59 and 1865–67, contributed 33 papers to the
Transactions 1839–72; member of Manchester literary and
philosophical society Jan. 1842, president to death; F.G.S. 1853,
F.R.S. 5 June 1856; possessed the most exact knowledge of coal
fields of Lancashire and Cheshire and of the geology of the whole
district. _d._ Cheetham hill, Manchester 19 Dec. 1881. _Trans. of
Geol. Soc. of Manchester xvi_, 256–59 (1882); _Proc. of Manchester
Lit. and Philos. Soc. xxi_, 142–48 (1882).
BINNEY, REV. THOMAS. _b._ Newcastle-on-Tyne April 1798; apprenticed
to Mr. Angas of Newcastle, bookseller 1813–20; ed. at Wymondley
college Herts 1820–23; minister of the New meeting, Bedford 1823;
minister of St. James’s st. chapel Newport, Isle of Wight Aug.
1824 to July 1829; ordained 29 Dec. 1824; minister of King’s
Weighhouse Chapel Eastcheap, London July 1829 to 4 July 1869,
where foundation stone of new chapel was laid 16 Oct. 1833; went
to the United States and Canada 1845 and to Australia 1857; LLD.
Univ. of Aberdeen 1852; chairman of Congregational Union of
England and Wales 1848; founded the Colonial Missionary Society
1836; author of _Illustrations of the practical power of faith_
1830, _3 ed._ 1856; _Conscientious clerical nonconformity_ 1839,
_5 ed._ 1860; _Is it possible to make the best of both worlds, a
book for young men_ 1853, this book sold at the rate of 100 a day
for many months, it was translated into several languages; _St.
Paul his life and ministry_ 1866; author of three Letters under
pseud. of _Fiat Justitia_ 1831, and of _The Great Gorham case_
1850, and several other pamphlets under pseud. of _John Search_;
author of a pamphlet called _Leicester Gaol by A. Balance, Esq. of
the Middle Temple_ 1841. _d._ Doric lodge, High road, Upper
Clapton 24 Feb. 1874. _Sermons by T. Binney second series, edited
by Henry Allon_ (1875) _xiii-lxvi_, _portrait_; _A memorial of the
late Rev. T. Binney, edited by Rev. J. Stoughton_ 1874; _T.
Binney, his mind, life and opinions by Rev. E. P. Hood_ 1874; _The
lamps of the temple 3 ed._ (1865) 146–87; _Contemporary Review
xxiii_, 884–97 (1874); _Graphic ix_, 218 (1874), _portrait_. He is
introduced as Canon Burney into the novels called _The master of
Marton_ 1864 and _Diary of a novelist_ 1870 _by Eliza Tabor_.
BINNS, EDWARD. M.D.; author of _The anatomy of sleep or the art of
procuring sound and refreshing slumber at will_ 1842; _Prodromus
towards a philosophical inquiry into the intellectual powers of
the negro_ 1844. _d._ Lucca, Jamaica 10 Feb. 1851.
BINNS, JOHN (_son of Mr. Binns of Dublin, ironmonger who d. 1774_).
_b._ Dublin 22 Dec. 1772; apprenticed to a soapboiler 1786; a
member of the London Corresponding Society 1794 which became the
greatest political association in Great Britain, chairman of its
general committee 6 months in 1795; connected with the United
Irishmen; left London for France 21 Feb. 1798 but arrested at
Margate 27 Feb. and after an examination by the Privy Council
committed to Tower of London; tried for high treason at Maidstone
May 1798 when acquitted; confined in Clerkenwell prison, then in
Gloucester prison till March 1801; sailed for America July 1801;
started a newspaper called _The Republican Argus_ at
Northumberland, Pennsylvania March 1802; edited at Philadelphia
March 1807 to 1829 _Democratic Press_ which soon became leading
paper in the state; alderman of Philadelphia Dec. 1822 to 1844.
_d._ Philadelphia 16 June 1860. _Recollections of the life of John
Binns_ 1854, _portrait_.
BINNS, THOMAS. Head master of the Friends’ school, Grove house,
Tottenham 1828; member of Committee of British and Foreign Bible
Society 1852–68, chairman of the Editorial Sub-Committee. _d._
Rockley near Bristol 2 Dec. 1872 aged 74. _Annual Monitor for
1874_ 6–10.
BINSTEAD, CHEESMAN HENRY. _b._ 1797; entered navy 10 June 1810;
agent for transports afloat 1828–34; captain 7 March 1853; retired
V.A. 30 July 1875. _d._ South parade, Wakefield 26 Nov. 1876.
BINYON, EDWARD. _b._ Manchester 1828; landscape painter both in oil
and water colours; contributed to exhibitions of Royal Academy and
Dudley Gallery 1857–76; his picture ‘The bay of Mentone’ has
frequently been reproduced; lived in island of Capri many years.
_d._ 5 Via Piazza, Capri 18 July 1876.
BIRCH, REV. HENRY MILDRED (_eld. son of Rev. Wm. Henry Rous Birch,
R. of Southwold, Suffolk_). _b._ Bedfield rectory, Suffolk 1820;
ed. at Eton and King’s coll. Cam., scholar 1839, Craven scholar
1841, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1846; fellow of his college 1843, members
prizeman 1844; assistant master at Eton; tutor to Prince of Wales
6 Aug. 1848 to 1851; R. of Prestwich, Lancs. 1852–84; chaplain in
ordinary to the Queen 27 Feb. 1852; B.D. Lambeth 1862; hon.
chaplain to Prince of Wales 16 Feb. 1863; canon of Ripon 29 June
1868 to death; proctor in convocation 1868, 1874 and 1880 to
death, _d._ St. Leonard’s lodge, Windsor 29 June 1884. _I.L.N.
xlii_, 456 (1863), _portrait_.
BIRCH, JAMES WHEELER WOODFORD (_eld. son of Rev. James Wheeler
Birch, V. of All Saint’s, Hertford_). member of Ceylon civil
service 1846–70; colonial sec. of the Straits Settlements May
1870; British resident in Malay state of Perak Nov. 1874 to death;
assassinated by the Malays at Perak 2 Nov. 1875.
BIRCH, JOHN FRANCIS. Second lieut. R.A. 18 Sep. 1793; second lieut.
R.E. 1 Jany. 1794, colonel R.E. 29 July 1825, colonel commandant
19 Oct. 1847 to death; C.B. 26 Sep. 1831; general 20 June 1854;
served in Flanders, Holland, Egypt and Spain. _d._ Folkestone 29
May 1856 aged 79.
BIRCH, SIR RICHARD JAMES HOLWELL (_son of Richard Comyns Birch, of
Bengal civil service_). _b._ Calcutta 1803; entered Bengal army
1821; studied at Trin. coll. Cam. 1823–24; judge advocate general
to the forces in Bengal 1841–52; military secretary to government
of India 1854 to 31 Dec. 1861 when he retired; M.G. 4 May 1858;
C.B. 5 June 1849, K.C.B. 18 May 1860. _d._ Venice 25 Feb. 1875.
_I.L.N. lxvi_, 259 (1875).
BIRCH, ROBERT HENRY. _b._ 1771; second lieut. R.A. 9 March 1795;
colonel 10 Jany. 1837 to 9 Nov. 1846, col. commandant 12 Aug. 1849
to death; M.G. 9 Nov. 1846. _d._ Dublin 29 June 1851.
BIRCH, SAMUEL (_eld. son of Rev. Samuel Birch, R. of St. Mary
Woolnoth, City of London who d. 1848_). _b._ London 3 Nov. 1813;
ed. at Merchant Taylors’ school 1826–31; employed in Public record
office 1834; assistant in department of Antiquities of British
Museum Jany. 1836, assistant keeper 1844; keeper of the Oriental
Mediæval and British antiquities and Ethnographical collections
1861 to death; corresponding member of Archæological Institute of
Rome 1839, of Berlin Academy 1851, of Academy of inscriptions of
French Institute 1861; LLD. St. Andrews 1862; determined the
ancient Cypriote to be a Greek language 1872; presided over
Congress of Orientalists held in London 14 Sep. 1874; received
German order of the Crown Nov. 1874; Rede lecturer Univ. of Cam.
for 1876; LLD. Cam. 1875; hon. fellow of Queen’s coll. Ox. 1875;
D.C.L. Ox. 1876; author of _Gallery of antiquities_ 1842;
_Introduction to the study of hieroglyphics_ 1857; _History of
ancient pottery_ 1857, _2 ed._ 1873; edited _Records of the past
12 vols._ 1873–77; _The manners and customs of the ancient
Egyptians by Sir J. G. Wilkinson_, _new ed. 3 vols._ 1878. _d._ 64
Caversham road, Kentish Town, London 27 Dec. 1885. _Times 29 Dec.
1885 p._ 8, _col._ 3; _Athenæum 2 Jany. 1886 pp._ 34–35; _Dublin
Univ. Mag. xc_, 53–60 (1877), _portrait_; _I.L.N. lxxxviii_, 64
(1886), _portrait_.
BIRCH, SYLVESTER DOUGLAS. A writer in Madras civil service 1830;
secretary and treasurer of Bank of Madras 1843; accountant general
at Bombay, pres. of the mint committee and government director of
Bank of Bombay 1859 to 28 Feb. 1865 when he retired on an annuity.
_d._ San Remo, Italy 4 Feb. 1881.
BIRCH, SIR THOMAS BERNARD, 2 Baronet. _b._ 18 March 1791; succeeded
22 Aug. 1833; sheriff of Lancs. 1841; M.P. for Liverpool 30 July
1847 to 1 July 1852. _d._ The Hazles Prescot near Liverpool 3
March 1880.
BIRCH, THOMAS JACOB (_2 son of Wyrley Birch of Wretham hall near
Thetford, Norfolk 1781–1866_). _b._ 15 Oct. 1806; ed. at Eton and
Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1831; barrister I.T. 18 Nov.
1831; recorder of Thetford March 1839 to Dec. 1866; judge of
Norfolk county courts (circuit 32) March 1847 to death. _d._
Ballycroy, Mayo 26 April 1868.
BIRCHALL, REV. JOSEPH (_son of John Birchall of Prescot,
watchmaker_). _b._ Prescot 1805; ed. at Manchester school and
Brasn. Coll. Ox., Somerset scholar 1825, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; C.
of Newbury, Berks. 1831–38; R. of Church, Lancashire 1840 to
death; proctor in Convocation for Archd. of Manchester; author of
_Occasional Sermons_ 1840; _Ecclesiastical Synods_ 1868. _d._
Church rectory 27 Oct. 1878.
BIRCHAM, FRANCIS THOMAS (_youngest son of Samuel Bircham of Booton
hall, Norfolk_). _b._ Booton hall 1810; admitted solicitor 1833;
practised in London to 1882; solicitor to London and South Western
railway 1834–82; pres. of Incorporated law society 1874–75. _d._
Burhill near Walton-on-Thames 25 Nov. 1883. Personalty sworn
upward of £161,000 3 March 1884; his correct name was Thomas
Francis Bircham, but he always called himself Francis Thomas
Bircham.
BIRD, REV. CHARLES SMITH (_5 child of William Bird of Liverpool,
West Indian Merchant, who d. 1814_). _b._ Union st. Liverpool 28
May 1795; articled to Stanistreet and Eden of Liverpool,
solicitors Feb. 1812, released from articles 1814; entered Trin.
coll. Cam. 1816, scholar 1818, 3 Wr. and 2 Smith’s prizeman 1820,
Fell. of his coll. Sep. 1820; C. of Burghfield, Berks. 1823–44;
took pupils 1823–44; F.L.S. 4 March 1828; C. of Sulhamstead 1840;
V. of Gainsborough 1843–59; preb. of Lincoln 16 June 1843;
chancellor of Lincoln June 1859 to death, instituted and installed
16 July 1859; edited a monthly periodical called _The Reading
church guardian_ 1839–40; author of _For ever and other devotional
poems_ 1833; _Transubstantiation tried by Scripture and reason_
1839; _The baptismal privileges, the baptismal vow, and the means
of grace considered in 6 Lent lectures_ 1841, _2 ed._ 1843; _The
eve of the Crucifixion_ 1858. _d._ The Chancery, Lincoln 9 Nov.
1862. _Sketches from the life of Rev. Charles S. Bird by Rev.
Claude S. Bird_ (1864), _portrait_.
BIRD, EDWARD JOSEPH (_son of Rev. Godfrey Bird, R. of Little
Waltham, Essex_). Entered navy 9 Sep. 1812; attempted to reach
North Pole from Spitzbergen in the Hecla 1825, penetrated a little
beyond 82° 45´ a latitude more northern than had ever been
attained; 1 lieut. of the Erebus in Antarctic expedition 1839–43;
captain of the Investigator 1848–49; admiral on h.p. 11 Dec. 1875.
_d._ The Wilderness, Witham 3 Dec. 1881 in 83 year.
BIRD, FREDERIC. _b._ Colchester 23 Jany. 1818; ed. at Guy’s
Hospital; surgeon in Craven st. Strand 1841; performed operation
of ovariotomy for ovarian dropsy 26 June 1843, being one of the
pioneers of that treatment; lectured on forensic medicine at
Westminster Hospital, obstetric physician there 1861; phys. to the
Maternity Charity; edited _Provincial (now British) Medical
Journal_. _d._ 13 Grosvenor st. London 28 April 1874. _Medical
Circular i_, 229 (1852); _Medical times and gazette i_, 519
(1874).
BIRD, GEORGE. Writer Madras civil service 1821; judge and criminal
judge of Canara 1835–38 and 1839–42; civil and session judge
Coimbatore 1844–47 and 1850–51; resigned the service 25 Feb. 1851.
_d._ England 20 July 1880.
BIRD, GOLDING. _b._ Downham, Norfolk 9 Dec. 1814; studied at Guy’s
hospital London 1832; lecturer on natural philosophy there
1836–43; L.S.A. 21 Jany. 1836, M.D. St. Andrews 24 April 1838
being only place where a degree could be obtained without
residing, M.A. 18 April 1840; physician to Finsbury dispensary
1838–43; L.R.C.P. 1840, F.R.C.P. 1845; assistant phys. at Guy’s
hospital and lecturer on materia medica 1843 to 4 Aug. 1853;
F.L.S. 1836, F.R.S. 22 Jany. 1846; author of _The elements of
natural philosophy_ 1839, _6 ed._ 1867; _Urinary deposits their
diagnosis pathology and therapeutical indications_ 1844, _5 ed._
1857. _d._ Camden park, Tunbridge Wells 27 Oct. 1854.
_Biographical sketch by J. H. Balfour_ 1855; _Medical Circular
iii_, 129 (1853), _portrait_.
BIRD, JAMES. Ed. at King’s college Aberdeen 1810, M.A. 1814;
apprenticed to his maternal uncle Dr. Scott of Elgin 1812–15;
studied at Guy’s and St. Thomas’s hospitals; M.R.C.S. Sep. 1816;
assistant surgeon H.E.I. Co’s. Bombay service 2 Aug. 1818;
residency surgeon at Sattara 1826–32; superintending surgeon of
Belgaum division of the army 1840–43 and of Presidency division
1843–44; physician general to Bombay medical board 1844 to 1 Dec.
1847 when he retired. _d._ Fern acre lodge, Gerrards Cross, Bucks.
10 July 1864 aged 67.
BIRD, JAMES. Solicitor in London; coroner for West Middlesex 9 July
1862 to death. _d._ Phœnix lodge, Brook Green, Hammersmith 7 Jany.
1868.
BIRD, JAMES. _b._ Cardiff Feb. 1802; ed. at St. Bartholomew’s
hospital; L.S.A. 1821, M.R.C.S. 1825; surgeon at Cardiff 1825–32;
surgeon in London 1832 to 1856; joint sec. with Henry Ancell to
the British medical association; author of _Private devotions for
girls_ 1874. _d._ 80 Seymour st. Portman sq. London 4 June 1874.
_Medical Circular i_, 263 (1852).
BIRD, REV. JOHN. _b._ Betchworth, Surrey 14 Sep. 1783; ed. at
Stonyhurst college; ordained priest 10 Dec. 1808; professed of the
4 vows 2 Feb. 1819; rector of St. Aloysius’ college 26 June 1832
to 18 May 1839 and 15 Sep. 1841; missioner at Pontefract 1842–48;
superior of St. George’s Residence, Worcester Nov. 1850 to death.
_d._ 8 June 1853.
BIRD, LOUIS SAUNDERS. Ensign Bengal Infantry 26 Nov. 1808; col. 23
Bengal N.I. 17 April 1856–1869; L.G. 22 Feb. 1870. _d._ Clevedon,
Somerset 17 April 1874 aged 81.
BIRD, ROBERT MERTTINS. _b._ 1788; Bengal civil servant; assistant to
registrar of Court of Sadr Diwàni Adàlat at Calcutta 9 Nov. 1808;
comr. of revenue and circuit for the Gorakhpur division 1829;
member of board of revenue at Allahabad 1832; revised settlement
of land revenue of North western provinces 1833–41, the most
complete settlement that had yet been made in India; retired to
England 1842; active member of committee of the Church Missionary
Society. _d._ Torquay 22 Aug. 1853. _Dict. of nat. biog. v_, 78
(1886).
BIRD, ROBERT NICHOLAS. Ensign 20 Foot 30 Aug. 1859; lieut. 2 Dec.
1862 to death; murdered by Japanese at Kamahura about 17 miles
from Yokohama 21 Nov. 1864. _R. Lindau’s Erzählungen und Novellen
i_, 15–54 (1871); _F. O. Adams’s History of Japan i_, 485–98
(1874), _ii_, 1–5 (1875).
BIRD, WILLIAM WILBERFORCE (_eld. son of Wm. Wilberforce Bird of the
Spring, Kenilworth, M.P. for Coventry_). _b._ 1784; ed. at Warwick
and Geneva; writer in H.E.I. Co.’s civil service at Calcutta 11
July 1803; third ordinary member of council of India 21 March
1838; senior member of board of customs salt and opium and of the
marine board 17 Sep. 1838; deputy governor of Bengal 4 times;
pres. of the council 1840–44; governor general of India 15 June
1844 to 23 July 1844; very instrumental in abolition of suttee and
suppression of slavery; retired to England 1844. _d._ 22 Sussex
sq. Hyde Park, London 1 June 1857.
BIRDWOOD, CHRISTOPHER. _b._ 1806; ensign 3 Bombay N.I. 3 May 1825;
commissariat officer of Malwa field force 1839–41; colonel Bombay
staff corps 9 Nov. 1868; general 1 Oct. 1877. _d._ Pucklechurch
near Bristol 4 July 1882 in 76 year. _Graphic xxvi_, 221 (1882),
_portrait_.
BIRKETT, REV. GEORGE WILLIAM. Educ. at St. John’s coll. Cam.,
scholar, B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827; V. of St. Florence near Tenby 1829
to death; author of _The trial of creation and other poems_ 1848.
_d._ Tenby 26 Nov. 1877 aged 78.
BIRKIN, RICHARD (_eld. son of Richard Birkin of Belper, calico
weaver_). _b._ Belper 6 July 1805; lace manufacturer at New
Basford, Nottingham with Mr. Biddle 1826–47; juror on behalf of
Nottingham for lace goods in International Exhibitions 1851 and
1862; mayor of Nottingham 1850, 55, 62 and 63; used mohair as a
material for lace being the first to do so either in England or
France. _d._ Aspley hall, Radford, Nottingham 10 Oct. 1870. _J. B.
Robinson’s Derbyshire gatherings_ (1866) 70–72, _portrait_; _W.
Felkin’s History of hosiery_ (1867) 368–71.
BIRKINSHAW, JOHN CASS. _b._ Bedlington iron works Durham 1811; the
first articled pupil of Robert Stephenson at Newcastle; engineer
of London end of London and Birmingham railway 1835; engineer of
Birmingham and Derby railway 1837–42; engineer of many railways
projected but not made; engineer of Danish land company 1865;
M.I.C.E. 2 March 1847; took out a patent 1820 for wrought or
malleable iron rails instead of cast iron as used up to that time.
_d._ March 1867 in 56 year. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E.
xxxi_, 202–207 (1871).
BIRKS, REV. THOMAS RAWSON (_younger son of Mr. Birks of Staveley,
Derbyshire, farmer_). _b._ Staveley 28 Sep. 1810; ed. at
Chesterfield, Mill Hill and Trin. coll. Cam., scholar, fellow
1834–44, 2 wrangler and 2 Smith’s prizemen Jany. 1834; R. of
Kelshall, Herts 1844 to 1864; hon. sec. to Evangelical Alliance
1850–71; P.C. of Holy Trinity Cam. 1865–77; hon. canon of Ely
cathedral 1871 to death; professor of moral theology, casuistical
divinity and moral philosophy at Cambridge 30 April 1872 to death;
published an edition of Paley’s _Horæ Paulinæ_ with notes and a
supplementary treatise entitled _Horæ Apostolicæ_ 1850; author of
_Horæ Evangelicæ_ 1852; _The Bible and modern thought_ 1861;
_Commentary on the book of Isaiah_ 1871, _2 ed._ 1878; _First
principles of moral science_ 1873; _Modern Utilitarianism_ 1874;
_Supernatural revelation_ 1879 and many other books. _d._ 6
Salisbury villas, Cambridge 19 July 1883. _Record 27 July 1883 p._
741.
BIRLEY, HUGH. _b._ Blackburn 21 Oct. 1817; ed. at Winchester; a
partner in firm of Macintosh and Co. india-rubber manufacturers;
chairman of National educational union; M. P. for Manchester 1868
to death. _d._ Moorland, Withington, Manchester 9 Sep. 1883.
BIRMINGHAM, JOHN. _b._ 1816; lived at Millbrook near Tuam;
discovered a remarkable new star in Corona Borealis 12 May 1866;
author of _Catalogue of red stars_ in _Transactions of Royal Irish
Academy xxvi_, 249 (1879); Cunningham medallist of the Academy
1884; discovered 22 May 1881 a deep red star in Cygnus which
proved strikingly variable and became known by his name; author of
a small poetical work entitled _Anglicania or England’s mission to
the Celt_ 1863. _d._ Millbrook 7 Sep. 1884.
BIRMINGHAM, VERY REV. PATRICK. Dean of the lay college and professor
of humanity Carlow college 1851 to July 1854 when he went to
Australia; vice pres. and professor of theology at Carlow college
Sep. 1864 to July 1871 when he went again to Australia. _d._
Fitzroy sq. London 9 Sep. 1883.
BIRNIE, ALEXANDER. _b._ Morayshire 1826; a baptist minister at
Preston; walked to Falkirk 1860; a painter at the Carron works
Falkirk; wrote articles in _Falkirk Advertiser_ under signature of
Cock of the Steeple; started the _Falkirk Liberal_ a penny weekly
paper 1861 which soon collapsed; having been without food or drink
for a fortnight, he entered the workhouse Morpeth where he _d._
March 1862.
BIRRELL, DAVID. _b._ 15 Sep. 1800; entered Bengal army 1817;
commanded a brigade at battle of Sobraon 10 Feb. 1846; lieut. col.
51 N.I. 1851, of 52 N.I. 1852 and of 72 N.I. 1857 to 1858; M.G. 25
April 1858; general 23 July 1876. _d._ 28 Oct. 1878.
BIRT, WILLIAM RADCLIFF. _b._ 15 July 1804; employed by Sir John
Herschel in the reduction and arrangement of his barometric
observations; investigated subject of atmospheric waves for the
British Association; reduced and discussed electrical observations
made at Kew 1848; F.R.A.S. 14 Jany. 1859; the first pres. of the
Selenographical society 1877 or 1878 to death; author of
_Hurricane and Sailor’s guide_ 1850; _Handbook of the law of
storms_ 1854, _new ed._ 1878. _d._ Leytonstone, Essex 14 Dec.
1881. _Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xlii_, 142–43
(1882).
BIRTWHISTLE, JOHN. Ensign 32 Foot 14 April 1813; major 19 Jany. 1839
to 12 March 1841 when placed on h.p; M.G. 28 Aug. 1865. _d._
Cheltenham 6 Oct. 1867 aged 75.
BISHOP, ANNE (_dau. of Daniel Riviére of London, artist_). _b._
London 1814; student at Royal academy of music June 1824 to June
1828; a singer at Philharmonic concerts 1831; one of chief singers
at Vauxhall gardens, the Oratorio concerts and country festivals;
went abroad with R. N. C. Bochsa the harpist 1839; sang at 260
concerts in chief cities of Europe Sept. 1839 to May 1843; sang
with great success at St. Petersburg 1840–41 and in Italy 1843–46;
appeared in 20 operas at the San Carlo, Naples; went to America
1846 where she appeared at Park theatre New York 4 Aug. 1847 as
Linda; went to Australia 1855; sang at the Crystal palace London
1858; gave her farewell concert at Surrey music hall 17 Aug. 1859;
sang in Canada, Mexico and Havana 1859–65; went to California
1865; wrecked on her way from Honolulu to China Feb. 1866; arrived
in India 1867; sang in Australia 1868; re-appeared at Steinway
hall New York Jany. 1881. (_m._ (1) 1832 Sir Henry Rowley Bishop
1786–1855. _m._ (2) at New York 30 April 1858, Martin Schultz).
_d._ New York 18 March 1884. _Drawing room portrait gallery of
eminent personages, third series_ 1860, _portrait_; _N. P.
Willis’s Hurry-graphs, 2 ed._ (1851) 200–203.
BISHOP, REV. DANIEL GODFREY. Head master of Buntingford gr. sch.
Herts. 1841–74; V. of Tibshelf near Alfreton, Derbyshire 1874 to
death; author of numerous articles upon biblical criticism,
classical literature, and general biography in _Penny Cyclopædia_.
_d._ Briston vicarage, Norfolk 14 April 1880 in 86 year.
BISHOP, REV. FRANCIS. _b._ Dorchester 27 July 1813; Unitarian
minister at Cheltenham 1840, at Warrington 1841, at George’s
meeting Exeter 1844–47, at Liverpool 1847–56, at Manchester
1856–58 and at Chesterfield 1858 to death; edited _The Christian
Investigator_; author of _The atonement, or God’s way of speaking
and man’s way of speaking_ 1843. _d._ Chesterfield 5 Aug. 1869.
_The Inquirer_ (1869) 533.
BISHOP, GEORGE. _b._ Leicester 21 Aug. 1785; a maker of British
wines in London, being the largest maker in England; erected an
observatory at South Villa, Regent’s Park 1836 where 11 planets
were discovered 1847–54, after his death the dome and the
instruments were removed by his son George Bishop to his house at
Twickenham; F.R.A.S. 1830, sec. 1833–39, treasurer 1840–57, pres.
1857–59; F.R.S. 9 June 1848; published in 1852 _Astronomical
observations during the years 1839–51_. _d._ South villa, Regent’s
Park, London 14 June 1861. _Monthly notices of Royal Astronomical
Soc. xxii_, 104–106 (1862).
BISHOP, SIR HENRY ROWLEY (_son of Mr. Bishop of London,
Watchmaker_). _b._ Great Portland st. London 18 Nov. 1786; pupil
of Francesco Bianchi the composer; composer of ballet music at
Italian opera house 1806; produced his opera of _The Circassian
bride_ at Drury Lane theatre 23 Feb. 1809, theatre was burnt down
the next night; musical director and composer at Covent Garden
theatre 1810–23, where he produced 50 musical dramas; director of
music at King’s theatre, Haymarket 1816–17; received freedom of
city of Dublin 2 Aug. 1820; composer at Drury Lane theatre
1825–28; musical director of Vauxhall gardens 1830–33; director of
Her Majesty’s concerts of ancient music 1840–48; Reid professor of
Music in Univ. of Edin. Nov. 1841 to Dec. 1843; knighted at St.
James’s palace 1 June 1842, being the first musician who ever
received that honour; professor of music in Univ. of Ox. Jany.
1848 to death; Mus. Bac. Ox. 1848, Mus. Doc. 1853; author of many
songs and glees, best known being _Bid me discourse_, _Should he
upbraid_, _The winds whistle cold_, _My pretty Jane_, _Mynheer Van
Dunck_ and of the trio and chorus _The chough and crow_. _d._ 13
Cambridge st. Edgware road, London 30 April 1855. _I.L.N. xix_,
669–70 (1851), _portrait_; _Charles Mackay’s Forty years
recollections ii_, 165–217 (1877); _Illust. news of the world iv_,
381 (1859), _portrait_.
BISHOP, JAMES. _b._ Trowbridge, Wiltshire 1793; a cloth worker 1813;
partner with Atkins and Gillman, proprietors of a menagery which
became a formidable opponent to George Wombwell’s menagery;
attended all the great fairs in England; proprietor of various
exhibitions; father of 20 children; the oldest showman in England.
_d._ Plymouth 19 Feb. 1881.
BISHOP, JOHN (_4 son of Samuel Bishop of Pimperne, Dorset_). _b._ 15
Sep. 1797; studied at St. Bartholomew’s Hospital; M.R.C.S. 1824,
F.R.C.S. 1843, member of council 1851, Hunterian orator 1859;
member of Medical society of London 1839, councillor, trustee,
orator and Lettsomian lecturer successively, and pres. 1852;
F.R.S. 9 May 1844; very successful in treatment of impediments of
speech; author of _On articulate sounds and on the causes and cure
of impediments of speech_ 1851; _Researches into the pathology and
treatment of deformities in the human body_ 1852; _The Lettsomian
lectures on Bones_ 1855; _On the construction of hearing and
speaking instruments_ 1856. _d._ Strangeways-Marshall, Dorset 29
Sep. 1873. _Proc. of royal society xxi_, 5–6 (1873); _British
medical journal ii_, 450 (1873).
BISHOP, WILLIAM. Agent at 170 New Bond st. London for Westley
Richards the gunmaker 1820 to death; brought into public notice by
Vincent Dowling, who rarely wrote a report of a prize fight
without bringing him on the scene; got the Dog Stealers act passed
which is known as Bishop’s act; well known in London as “the
Bishop of Bond st.” _d._ 170 New Bond st. 16 March 1871 in 74
year. _Illust. sporting news ii_, 164 (1863), _portrait_.
BISSET, REV. JAMES (_2 son of George Bisset of Udny, Aberdeenshire,
schoolmaster who d. 1812_). _b._ Udny 20 April 1795; ed. at
Marischal coll. and Univ. of Aberdeen; kept a school at Udny
1812–25 which became celebrated; licensed by presbytery of Ellon
31 March 1819; minister of parish of Bourtie, Aberdeenshire June
1825 to death; ordained 19 April 1826; D.D. Aberdeen 23 Feb. 1850;
moderator of general assembly 22 May 1862. _d._ Bourtie 8 Sep.
1872.
BISSET, SIR JOHN. _b._ Perth 1777; commissary general 31 July 1811
to 1819 when placed on h.p.; served through Peninsular war; K.C.H.
1832; knighted at St. James’s Palace 6 Nov. 1832; K.C.B. 16 Aug.
1850; granted pension of £550; author of _Memoranda regarding the
duties of the Commissariat on field service abroad_ 1846. _d._
Perth 3 April 1854.
BISSHOPP, CECIL (_son of Harry Bisshopp, colonel in the army_).
Cornet 14 Dragoons 10 Dec. 1799; major 11 Foot 6 Sep. 1834 to 17
May 1844 when placed on h.p.; M.G. 11 Nov. 1851; colonel 16 Foot
16 May 1857 to death; C.B. 26 Dec. 1818. _d._ Stoke, Plymouth 21
March 1858.
BISSHOPP, SIR EDWARD CECIL, 11 Baronet. _b._ 23 Feb. 1826; succeeded
15 Dec. 1865. _d._ 27 Jany. 1870.
BISSHOPP, SIR GEORGE CURZON, 10 Baronet. _b._ 10 April 1823;
succeeded 23 Jany. 1849. _d._ Parham park near Hastings 15 Dec.
1865.
BISSON, EDWARD LEONARD (_son of Rev. Amias Bisson, R. of St.
Laurens, Jersey_). _b._ St. Laurens 1797; jurat or judge of the
royal court Jersey 1832 to death; lieutenant bailiff 1839 to
death. _d._ St. Heliers, Jersey 1 April 1884 in 88 year.
BLAAUW, WILLIAM HENRY (_only son of Wm. Blaauw of Beechland, Newick,
Sussex 1748–1808_). _b._ Queen Anne st. London 25 May 1793; ed. at
Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1815, M.A. 1818; chief founder of
Sussex Archæological Society 18 June 1846, sec. 1846–58, edited
Society’s Collections 1846–56; elected F.S.A. 30 May 1850,
admitted 27 Feb. 1851; member of council of Camden Society
1848–65, treasurer 1861–65; sheriff of Sussex 1859; author of _The
barons’ war, including the battles of Lewes and Evesham_ 1844, _2
ed._ 1871. _d._ Beechland 26 April 1870. _Sussex Archæological
Collections xxii_, 9–11 (1870), _portrait_.
BLACHFORD, AUGUSTUS GEORGE. Ensign 24 Foot 12 Nov. 1825; lieut. col.
30 March 1858 to 9 March 1860 when he retired on full pay with
hon. rank of major general. _d._ Sheringham near Cromer 13 Nov.
1884 aged 78.
BLACHFORD, JOHN. _b._ 1790; solicitor in City of London 1818 to
death; head of firm of Blachford, Riches and Wood of 25 Abchurch
lane to death; vestry clerk of parish of St. James Aldgate 40
years. _d._ 4 Jany. 1886.
BLACHLEY, HENRY. 2 Lieutenant R.A. 10 Aug. 1804; lieut. col. 23 Nov.
1841 to 4 April 1843 when he retired on full pay; L.G. 27 Feb.
1866. _d._ Banwell, Somerset 13 Aug. 1868.
BLACK, ADAM (_son of Charles Black of Edinburgh, builder_). _b._
Charles st. Edin. 20 Feb. 1784; ed. at high sch. Edin.; opened a
bookseller’s shop at 57 North bridge, Edin. 1808; published
_Edinburgh Review_ 1827 to death, and _Encyclopædia Britannica_,
_7 ed. 22 vols._ 1830–42, _8 ed. 22 vols._ 1853–61, wrote many
articles in it; master of the Merchant Company Edin. 1831; a
member of the town council 1832; lord provost 1843–48; pres. of
Philosophical Institution 1845; bought works of Sir Walter Scott
on behalf of an association of 60 persons for £27,000 March 1851;
M.P. for Edinburgh 9 Feb. 1856 to 6 July 1865; retired from
business 1865. _d._ 38 Drummond place, Edin. 24 Jany. 1874. A
bronze memorial statue of him in East Prince’s st. gardens was
unveiled 3 Nov. 1877. A fine portrait of him by Sir J. W. Gordon
is in the council room Edinburgh. _Life of A. Black by A.
Nicolson_ 1885; _Crombie’s Modern Athenians_ (1882) 179–83,
_portrait_; _Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. viii_, 467 (1865).
BLACK, REV. ALEXANDER (_son of John Black of Aberdeen, gardener_).
_b._ Aberdeen 1789; ed. at Aberdeen gr. sch. and Marischal
college, B.A. 1807, D.D. May 1824; licensed by presbytery of
Aberdeen 9 Feb. 1814; minister of Tarves Nov. 1817 to 27 June
1832; ordained 1 April 1818; professor of divinity in Marischal
college Aberdeen April 1832 to 1843 when he joined the Free church
at the Disruption; sent to the East to make enquiries as to
expediency of beginning a mission to the Jews 1839; professor of
exegetical theology in New college Edinburgh about 1844–1856. _d._
Edinburgh 24 or 27 Jany. 1864 in 75 year.
BLACK, JAMES. _b._ Scotland 1787; L.R.C.S. Edin. 1808; assistant
surgeon R.N. 1809; practised at Bolton to 1839 and 1848–56, at
Manchester 1839–48, and at Edin. 1856 to death; M.D. Glasgow 1820,
L.R.C.S. Eng. 1823, F.R.C.P. 1860; an original member of British
Association 1831; pres. of British medical association 1842; pres.
of Provincial medical association 1853; pres. of Manchester
Geological Society; F.G.S. 1838, F.G.S. of France 1848; F.R.S.
Edin. 1857; author of _An inquiry into the capillary circulation
of the blood_ 1825; _A comparative view of the more intimate
nature of fever_ 1826; _A manual of the bowels_ 1840; _A
medico-topographical, geological and statistical sketch of Bolton
and its neighbourhood_, a paper of 100 pages in the _Transactions
of Provincial medical and surgical association_. _d._ 2 George sq.
Edin. 30 April 1867 in 80 year. _Proc. of Royal Society of Edin.
vi_, 188 (1869).
BLACK, JOHN (_only son of Ebenezer Black of Burnhouses near Dunse,
Berwickshire, farm labourer_). _b._ Burnhouses 1783; articled to a
writer at Dunse 1796–1800; clerk in an accountant’s office
Edinburgh; engaged on the _Morning Chronicle_ daily paper in
London 1810, principal editor 1819–44; fought a harmless duel with
John Arthur Roebuck, M.P. 19 Nov. 1835; sold his library of 30,000
volumes 1844; translated Humboldt’s _Political essay on the
kingdom of New Spain 4 vols._ 1811–12 and other books. _d._
Birling, Kent 15 June 1855. _C. Mackay’s Forty years’
recollections i_, 70–95, _ii_, 177–78; _I.L.N. xxvii_, 13–14
(1855), _portrait_.
BLACK, JOHN. _b._ Glenrinnes, Upper Banff 1834; professor of
humanity in University of Aberdeen 1868 to death. _d._ at his
college residence Old Aberdeen 17 Nov. 1881.
BLACK, NEIL (_son of Archibald Black of Cowal Argyleshire, sheep
farmer_). _b._ Cowal 1804; sailed for Adelaide April 1839; bought
a station near Glenormiston, Victoria; bought the Sisters station;
his annual sales of cattle attracted buyers from all parts of
Australia; member of legislative council of Victoria for the
Western province 1856 to death. _d._ Mount Noorat, Victoria 15 May
1880. _Men of the time in Australia, Victorian series_ (1878) _p._
16.
BLACK, PATRICK (_2 son of colonel Patrick Black of the Bengal
cavalry who d. about 1819_). _b._ Aberdeen 1813; ed. at Eton
1828–30 and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1834, M.D. 1836; F.R.C.P. 1845,
censor 3 times, Croonian lecturer 1855: assistant phys. to St.
Bartholomew’s hospital 1842, warden of the medical school 1851–56,
physician and clinical lecturer 1860–78, lecturer on medicine
1861–78; author of _Chloroform how shall we ensure, safety in its
administration_ 1855; _Essay on the Spleen_ 1876; revised the
Latin part of the _Nomenclature of diseases_ for Royal College of
Phys. 1867. _d._ 11 Queen Anne st. Cavendish sq. London 12 Oct.
1879. _St. Bartholomew’s hospital reports xv_, _pp. xxix-xl_
(1879).
BLACK, THOMAS. _b._ Wemyss 1819; surgeon at Anstruther 1839 to
death; his body was found floating in the harbour of Anstruther 29
Feb. 1864. _Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent men of Fife_ (1866)
64.
BLACK, WILLIAM. _b._ Anstruther 1770; entered navy 13 April 1793;
captain 7 June 1814; retired R.A. 9 Oct. 1846. _d._ Ormsby,
Norfolk 6 Nov. 1852 in 82 year. _Conolly’s Biog. dict. of eminent
men of Fife_ (1866) 62.
BLACK, REV. WILLIAM. _b._ Auchinairn parish of Cadder 1801; ed. at
Univ. of Glasgow; licensed by presbytery of Hamilton Aug. 1824;
minister of Shettleston April 1826; minister of Barony church
Glasgow Sep. 1828 to death; D.D. Glasgow April 1834. _d._ Florence
15 Jany. 1851 in 50 year. _Smith’s Our Scottish clergy, 2 series_
(1849) 17–26.
BLACK, WILLIAM HENRY (_eld. son of John Black of Kintore,
Aberdeenshire_). _b._ 7 May 1808; a tutor among families residing
at and near Tulse Hill, Surrey 1825; clerk in the Public Record
Office, assistant keeper; founder and sec. of Chronological
institute of London Dec. 1850, registrar 21 Dec. 1853; founded
Palestine archæological association 13 Sep. 1853 and
Anglo-biblical institute; F.S.A. 9 Dec. 1858; pastor of the
Seventh Day Baptists (one of smallest sects in England) in Mill
yard, Leman st. Whitechapel 1840 to death; prepared an edition of
the British part of the _Itinerary of Antoninus_ (never issued);
contributed to Samuel Bentley’s _Excerpta Historica_ 1831;
catalogued the manuscripts of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford, the
Arundel MSS. in the library of the Heralds’ College, and Colfe’s
library at Lewisham. _d._ 15 Mill yard, Whitechapel 12 April 1872.
_Rev. C. M. Davies’s Unorthodox London_ (1872) 227–37; _J. E.
Ritchie’s Religious life of London_ (1870) 159–66.
BLACKADDER, ROBERT BARNES. _b._ Scotland; came to London 1834,
employed by Roake and Varty and other booksellers; edited and
published _Chronological Bible_ 1867 and _Chronological New
Testament_ 1867. _d._ Booksellers’ provident retreat Abbot’s
Langley 26 June 1883 aged 71.
BLACKALL, JOHN (_6th son of Rev. Theophilus Blackall, Preb. of
Exeter cath. who d. 4 Aug. 1781_). _b._ St. Paul’s st. Exeter 24
Dec. 1771; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Balliol coll. Ox.; B.A.
1793, M.A. 1796, M.B. 1797, M.D. 1801; studied medicine at St.
Bartholomew’s hosp. London; practised at Exeter 1797–1801 and
1807–52; physician to Devon and Exeter hosp. 1 June 1797–1801 when
he resigned, and June 1807; practised at Totnes 1801–1807;
physician to St. Thomas’s lunatic asylum Exeter 1812; candidate of
R.C.P. 22 Dec. 1814; fellow 22 Dec. 1815; the chief physician in
the West of England 1822–52; author of _Observations on the nature
and cure of dropsies_ 1813 _4 ed._ 1818 which at once placed him
in the rank of the first physicians of his day and acquired for
him an European reputation. _d._ Southernhay Exeter 10 Jany. 1860.
_Munk’s Roll of royal college of physicians iii_, 138–41 (1878),
abridged from _British Medical Journal i_, 75–76 (1860).
BLACKALL, ROBERT. Entered Bengal army 1805; colonel of 43 N.I. 18
July 1848, of 2 European Fusiliers 7 April 1851, and of 13 N.I. 19
Aug. 1859 to death; L.G. 18 Dec. 1860. _d._ 20 April 1863.
BLACKALL, SAMUEL WENSLEY (_eld. son of Robert Blackall of Colamber
manor, co. Longford who d. 1855_). _b._ 1809; ed. at Trin. coll.
Dublin; ensign 85 Foot 26 June 1827, lieut. 17 Feb. 1832 to 1 Feb.
1833 when he sold out; sheriff of co. Longford 1833, of co. Tyrone
1862; M.P. for co. Longford 13 Aug. 1847 to April 1851; lieutenant
governor of Dominica 1 April 1851 to 1857; governor of Sierra
Leone 1862; governor of West African Settlements 23 Feb. 1866;
governor of Queensland 4 May 1868 to death. _d._ Brisbane 21 Jany.
1871.
BLACKBOURN, JOHN (_son of James Blackbourn of Billingsgate, London,
fish salesman_). One of the singing boys of St. Paul’s cathedral
1800–1808, apprenticed to John Sale the master of the boys 1811;
organist of Wandsworth parish church 1818–21 and of Clapham parish
church 1821 to death; member of Royal Society of Musicians 1818,
of the Madrigal Society 1819, of the Glee Club 1819, and secretary
to 1825. _d._ Clapham 18 Dec. 1854 aged 62.
BLACKBURN, REV. JOHN. _b._ the Minories, London 1791; ed. at Stepney
and Hoxton; a missionary in the Irish Evangelical society; pastor
of Church of Christ at Finchingfield, Essex 25 Sep. 1815 to 1822;
pastor of Claremont chapel Pentonville, London 1822 to death;
editor of _Congregational Magazine_; originated and edited
_Congregational Calendar_, afterwards merged in the
_Congregational year book_; a projector and sec. of Congregational
Union of England and Wales 1831; originator of the Christian
Instruction society 1825; edited _The Biblical educator_. _d._ 17
Holford sq. Pentonville 16 June 1855. _Congregational year book_
(1856) 208–10; _J. Waddington’s Congregational history v_, 198–202
(1870).
BLACKBURN, PETER (_eld. son of John Blackburn of Killearn near
Glasgow_). _b._ Levenside, Dumbartonshire 1811; ed. at Eton;
cornet 2 Life Guards 29 Jany. 1830, lieut. 4 May 1832 to 1836;
M.P. for Stirlingshire 5 March 1855 to 6 July 1865; a lord of the
Treasury 15 March 1859 to June 1859; chairman of Edinburgh and
Glasgow railway Sep. 1846 to death. _d._ Killearn house, Killearn
20 May 1870.
BLACKBURNE, FRANCIS (_eld. son of Richard Blackburne of Great
Footstown, co. Meath who d. 1798_). _b._ Great Footstown 11 Nov.
1782; entered Trinity college Dublin July 1798, scholar 1801, B.A.
1803, LL.B. and LLD. 1852; called to bar in Ireland Jany. 1805;
went the Home circuit; K.C. 1822; administered the Insurrection
act in Limerick and Clare 1822–24; serjeant at law July 1826,
king’s second serjeant at law 19 April 1830 to Jany. 1831;
attorney general in Ireland 11 Jany. 1831 to April 1835 and 23
Sep. 1841 to Oct. 1842; P.C. Ireland 1831; master of the Rolls 1
Nov. 1842 to 23 Jany. 1846; chief justice of Queen’s Bench 23
Jany. 1846 to Feb. 1852; lord chancellor of Ireland Feb. 1852 to
Dec. 1852 and 24 July 1866 to March 1867; vice chancellor of Univ.
of Dub. Dec. 1851; one of Commissioners of National education
1852–53; lord justice of Appeal in Ireland Oct. 1856 to July 1866;
offered the Lord Chancellorship by Earl of Derby 24 Feb. 1858 but
declined; refused a Baronetcy May 1867. _d._ Rathfarnham Castle
near Dublin 17 Sep. 1867. _Life of the Right Hon. Francis
Blackburne by his son Edward Blackburne_ 1874, _portrait_; _O. J.
Burke’s History of lord chancellors of Ireland_ (1879) 277–93;
_Dublin univ. mag. xxiv_, 470–78 (1844), _portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_,
323 (1848), _portrait_.
BLACKBURNE, JOHN GEORGE. _b._ London 4 June 1815; articled to Wm.
Dunn of Oldham, surveyor 31 May 1828, partner with him 5 June 1835
to 27 June 1840 when he died; practised at Oldham 1835 to death;
M.I.C.E. 1 May 1855; F.G.S. 1835; pres. of Manchester district
society of surveyors and valuers 1866. _d._ Dryclough, Oldham 30
Sep. 1871. _Minutes of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxxiii_, 206–209
(1872).
BLACKBURNE, JOHN IRELAND. _b._ 26 May 1783; M.P. for Newton,
Lancashire 8 May 1807 to 10 June 1818 and for Warrington 7 Jany.
1835 to 23 July 1847. _d._ Hale hall near Warrington 27 Jany.
1874.
BLACKER, REV. GEORGE (_elder son of James Blacker of Dublin, police
magistrate_). _b._ 1791; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin; scholar 1809,
B.A. 1811, M.A. 1858; C. of St. Andrew’s, Dublin 1811–38; V. of
Maynooth 1838 to death; Preb. of St. Patrick’s cathedral 28 Dec.
1840 to death; author of _Castle of Maynooth_ 1853, _2 ed._ 1860;
_Castle of Kilkea_ 1860; _A record of the history of Maynooth
church_ 1867, all privately printed. _d._ the Rectory, Maynooth 23
May 1871 in 80 year. _Irish Ecclesiastical Gazette xiii_, 131
(1871).
BLACKER, WILLIAM. Ensign 60 Foot 3 July 1801; lieut. col. Armagh
militia 5 Nov. 1812 to 6 May 1846; vice treasurer of Ireland
1817–1829. _d._ Carrick house, Armagh 25 Nov. 1855 aged 80.
BLACKETT, SIR EDWARD, 6 Baronet. _b._ London 23 Feb. 1805; ed. at
Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox.; succeeded 27 Oct. 1816; sheriff of
Northumberland 1833; married 4 times. _d._ Matfen hall,
Northumberland 23 Nov. 1885.
BLACKETT, HENRY. Publisher in London with Daniel Hurst (who _d._ 6
July 1870 aged 67). _d._ The Green, Ealing 7 March 1871 in 45
year.
BLACKIE, JOHN (_son of John Blackie of Glasgow, publisher who d. 17
June 1874 aged 92_). _b._ Glasgow 29 Sep. 1805; ed. at the high
school; head of the publishing firm of Blackie and Son in Glasgow
and London, with branches in every important town in Scotland;
member of Glasgow town council 1857; lord provost 1863; originated
the City Improvement scheme. _d._ Hillhead, Lillybank, Glasgow 11
Feb. 1873. _Bookseller_ 1873 _p._ 205.
BLACKLEY, REV. WILLIAM. Ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam.; B.A. 1835,
M.A. 1852; chaplain to Viscount Hill 1837 to death; V. of
Stanton-upon-Hine-Heath, Salop 1855–72; author of _Expository
lectures on the first four chapters of St. Matthew’s Gospel_ 1842;
_Diplomatic correspondence of the Right Hon. Richard Hill 2 vols._
1845; _Scriptural teaching_ 1847; _The Gospel history between the
death of Christ and the day of Pentecost_ 1855. _d._ Garforth
house, Upper Sydenham 29 March 1885 aged 87.
BLACKLOCK, AMBROSE. _b._ Dumfries 1816; Assistant surgeon Madras 8
Feb. 1840; professor of surgery and surgeon of the General
hospital Madras 1851, and professor of medicine and physician 1858
to 28 April 1867; went to England on sick leave 29 Aug. 1865;
returned to Madras 1868; deputy inspector general of Presidency,
Circle and Northern, divisions 4 Aug. 1870 to death; author of _A
treatise on sheep_ 1838, _12 ed._ 1853. _d._ of enteritis at
Chittoor, Madras 11 Feb. 1873.
BLACKLOCK, WILLIAM JAMES. _b._ Cumwhitton near Carlisle about 1815;
landscape painter; exhibited pictures at Royal Academy, British
Institution and Society of British Artists 1836–55. _d._ Dumfries
12 March 1858 aged 42. _Carlisle Journal 19 March 1858._
BLACKMAN, WILLIAM. _b._ Arundel 27 Nov. 1862; ed. at Ardingley
college, captain of the cricket eleven 1880, an assistant master
1880; in the Sussex county eleven 17 July 1881 to 1884; one of the
best all-round cricketers in South of England. _d._ 4 Royal
terrace, Fitzroy, Melbourne 2 June 1885. _Cricket 28 Jany. 1886
p._ 1, _portrait_.
BLACKMORE, REV. RICHARD WHITE. Educ. at Merton coll. Ox., B.A. 1813;
chaplain to the Russia company 1819–47; R. of Donhead St. Mary
near Salisbury 1847 to death; author of _History of the church of
Russia_ 1842; _The doctrine of the Russian church_ 1845. _d._
Donhead St. Mary rectory 28 June 1882 in 91 year.
BLACKMORE, WILLIAM. _b._ Salisbury; admitted solicitor 1849;
practised at Liverpool 1856–69; presented his very valuable
collection of stone implements and other objects of art of
aboriginal inhabitants of America to city of Salisbury 1863 which
formed nucleus of the Blackmore museum, Salisbury; member of
Ethnological society of London 1866; member of council of
Anthropological society 21 Jany. 1871 on its amalgamation with
Ethnological society, and vice pres. 1872. _d._ Belgrave mansions,
Grosvenor gardens, London 12 April 1878.
BLACKSTONE, WILLIAM SEYMOUR. _b._ 30 Oct. 1809; M.P. for
Wallingford, Berkshire 11 Dec. 1832 to July 1852. _d._ 6 Jany.
1881.
BLACKWALL, JOHN (_son of Mr. Blackwall of Manchester, importer of
Irish linen_). _b._ St. Anne’s square, Manchester 20 Jany. 1790;
partner with his father to 1833; lived at Llanrwst, North Wales
1842 to death; member of Manchester literary and philosophical
society; F.L.S. April 1827; author of _Researches in Zoology_
1834, _2 ed._ 1873; _A history of the spiders of Great Britain and
Ireland_, _2 parts_ 1861–64, published by the Ray Society; wrote
82 papers in natural history periodicals 1821–71. _d._ Hendre
house, Llanrwst 11 May 1881. _Entomologist xiv_, 145–50, 190
(1881).
BLACKWELL, THOMAS. Partner with E. Crosse as oilmen at 11 King st.
Soho, London 1829, this was oldest house of the kind in London
having been founded 1706; moved to Soho square 1840; began
manufacture of jams 1841 and of table jellies 1850. _d._
Brookshill, Harrow Weald 16 Dec. 1879. Will proved 6 March 1880,
Personalty sworn under £160,000. _H. Mayhew’s Shops of London i_,
174–88 (1865).
BLACKWELL, THOMAS EVANS (_son of John Blackwell, civil engineer who
d. 1840_). _b._ Devizes 28 July 1819; engineer to Kennet & Avon
canal co. 1840; engineer to Bristol docks 1852–57; vice pres. and
general manager of grand trunk railway 1857–62; F.G.S., F.R.G.S.;
A.I.C.E. 1843, M.I.C.E. 1849. _d._ 25 June 1863.
BLACKWOOD, ARTHUR JOHNSTONE (_2 son of Sir Henry Blackwood, admiral
R.N., 1 Baronet 1770–1832_). _b._ 25 April 1808; clerk in Colonial
office April 1824 to May 1867; groom of the privy chamber 1836 to
death. _d._ Oakham, Rutland 2 Jany. 1874.
BLACKWOOD, FRANCIS PRICE (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 25 May
1809; entered navy 6 Dec. 1821; captain 28 June 1838; commanded
the Fly surveying vessel on East India station 17 Nov. 1841 to
1846; F.R.A.S. _d._ of cancer in the throat at Richmond 22 March
1854. _Journal of Royal Geog. Soc. xxiv_, 80–81 (1854).
BLACKWOOD, GEORGE FREDERICK (_2 son of Wm. Blackwood, major in
Bengal army_). _b._ Moradabad, Bengal 1838; ed. at Edinburgh
academy and Addiscombe; 2 lieut. Bengal artillery 11 Dec. 1857;
commanded the artillery in the Lushai expedition Nov. 1871; major
10 Feb. 1875; commanded E. battery B. brigade of Royal Horse
Artillery in the Afghan campaign 1879 to death; killed at battle
of Maiwand 27 July 1880, being one of the 11 officers and men who
fought till they were all killed. _Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign_
(1882) 20–22, _portrait_.
BLACKWOOD, SIR HENRY, 3 Baronet. _b._ 7 May 1828; succeeded 7 Jany.
1851. _d._ Athens 26 May 1854.
BLACKWOOD, SIR HENRY MARTIN, 2 Baronet (_only son of Sir Henry
Blackwood, 1 baronet 1770–1832_). _b._ 11 June 1801; entered navy
22 July 1814; captain 28 April 1827; succeeded his father 14 Dec.
1832; commodore on East India station 29 June 1844; captain of the
Fox 14 Oct. 1843 to 5 Aug. 1848. _d._ Portsmouth 7 Jany. 1851.
_I.L.N. xviii_, 37 (1851).
BLACKWOOD, JOHN (_6 son of William Blackwood of Edinburgh, publisher
1776–1834_). _b._ Edinburgh 7 Dec. 1818; ed. at high school and
Univ. Edin.; superintended London branch of his brother Robert’s
publishing business 1840–45; partner in the firm 1845; head of the
firm 1852 to death; editor of _Blackwood’s Mag._ 1845 to death;
published in it George Eliot’s _Scenes of clerical life_,
published all her books except _Romola_. _d._ Strathtyrum, St.
Andrews 29 Oct. 1879. _The Critic xxi_, 6, 38, 102, 128, 192 _and_
225 (1860); _George Eliot’s Life by J. W. Cross 3 vols._ 1885;
_I.L.N. lxxii_, 461 (1879), _portrait_; _Graphic xx_, 525 (1879),
_portrait_.
BLAGDEN, ISA JANE. Lived at Florence 1849 to death; great friend of
Mrs. Theodosia Trollope and of Mrs. E. B. Browning both of whom
she nursed in their last illnesses; author of _Agnes Tremorne 2
vols._ 1861; _The cost of a secret 3 vols._ 1863; _The woman I
loved and the woman who loved me_ 1865; _The crown of a life_
1869. _d._ Florence 26 Jany. 1873. _Poems by the late Isa Blagden
with a memoir_ 1873.
BLAGDEN, RICHARD (_youngest son of Richard Bragg Blagden of
Petworlh, Sussex, surgeon_). M.R.C.S. 1811, F.R.C.S. 1843; surgeon
in London 1814–54; surgeon to Duchess of Kent 1828 to death;
surgeon accoucheur to Queen Victoria 1840 to death; F.R. Med. and
Chir. Soc. 1839, served on the council 1847–48. _d._ Percy place,
Bath 31 March 1861 aged 72.
BLAGDEN-HALE, EDWARD. _b._ 14 Aug. 1814; ensign 82 Foot 2 Aug. 1833,
lieut. col. 7 Sep. 1855 to 10 Nov. 1856 and 6 Feb. 1857 to 1 June
1861 when placed on h.p.; brigadier general Bengal 16 Oct. 1858 to
14 Feb. 1859; L.G. 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 24 March 1858. _d._ Alderley,
Wotton under Edge 17 May 1881.
BLAGROVE, HENRY GAMBLE (_eld. son of Mr. Blaqrove of Nottingham,
professor of music_). _b._ Nottingham 20 Oct. 1811; appeared as a
violinist at Drury Lane theatre in an entertainment called _The
Lilliputians_ 1817; played at concerts at Exhibition rooms in
Spring Gardens 1817; studied at Royal Academy of Music 1823; solo
violinist in royal private band 1830–37; pupil of Spohr at Cassel
1832–34; played at Vienna and elsewhere with great success; leader
of a string quartet party which gave a series of concerts at the
Hanover square rooms 1836; led the State band at the Coronation of
Queen Victoria; principal violin in Jullien’s band, at both opera
houses, at most of the provincial festivals, the Handel festivals
at Crystal Palace, and leading musical societies in London; taught
the violin at R.A. of music; published some valuable exercises for
the violin, and a few solos. (_m._ 17 Aug. 1841 Etheldred dau. of
Henry Combe, she _d._ 8 Jany. 1869). _d._ 224 Marylebone road,
London 15 Dec. 1872. _Rev. W. W. Cazalet’s History of royal
academy of Music_ (1854) 285–87; _I.L.N. lxi_, 633 (1872),
_portrait_.
BLAIKIE, FRANCIS (_son of Andrew Blaikie, tenant of Holydean,
Scotland_). Went to England about 1789; agent to Earl of
Chesterfield, and then to Earl of Leicester; introduced the turnip
drill and other improvements in agriculture; author of papers on
science of agriculture; retired about 1832. _d._ St. Helens Sep.
1857.
BLAIKIE, SIR THOMAS (_4 son of John Blaikie, of Aberdeen_). _b._
Aberdeen 1802; ed. at gr. sch. and Marischal coll.; merchant at
Aberdeen; lord provost 5 times; knighted at St. James’s palace 20
Feb. 1856. _d._ Bonacord terrace, Aberdeen 25 Sep. 1861.
BLAINE, DELABERE ROBERTON. _b._ Woodbridge, Suffolk; solicitor in
Lincoln’s Inn Fields London; barrister M.T. 8 May 1846; revising
barrister for Essex 1866–71; judge of Northumberland county court
(circuit No. 1) April 1871; transferred to London (circuit No. 43)
Nov. 1871; F.R.G.S. 1854; author of _Laws of Artistic copyright
and their defects_ 1853; _Suggestions on the copyright bill_ 1861;
_d._ Southwick place, Hyde park sq. London 13 Dec. 1871 aged 64.
BLAIR, CHARLES EDWARD. L.S.A. 1836, M.R.C.S. 1836; army surgeon in a
Portugese regiment during war between Dom Miguel and Dom Pedro
1833–34; reported in the _Lancet_ the first cases of cholera in
London 1832; author of _Lectures on the anatomy and physiology of
the teeth_; K.C., K.T.S. _d._ East hill, Colchester 28 Aug. 1855
aged 45.
BLAIR, JAMES KENNEDY (_eld. son of James Blair of Weatfield,
Belfast_). _b._ Weatfield 9 Dec. 1807; ed. at Univ. of Edin.;
barrister L.I. 27 Jany. 1835; judge of Court of record for hundred
of Salford, Lancashire; joint judge of county courts for circuit
No. 6 comprising Liverpool, Ormskirk and St. Helens 22 Oct. 1857
to 28 Feb. 1872 when he resigned. _d._ New Brighton, Cheshire 1
Oct. 1879.
BLAIR, STEPHEN. _b._ Bolton 1804; Merchant and bleacher at Bolton;
M.P. for Bolton 12 Sep. 1848 to 1 July 1852. _d._ 5 July 1870.
BLAKE, BARNETT. Edited _Exeter and Plymouth Gazette_ 1843–52;
secretary of Exeter Literary and Scientific Institution 5 years;
editor and manager of _Liverpool Standard_; secretary of Yorkshire
Union of Mechanics’ Institutes 1856 to death. _d._ of typhus fever
at Beeston near Leeds 14 March 1866 aged 54.
BLAKE, EDWARD SAMUEL. Colonel in Bombay artillery 29 May 1861 to
death; C.B. 21 March 1859. _d._ 18 Princes sq. Bayswater, London
26 June 1862 aged 51.
BLAKE, SIR FRANCIS, 3 Baronet. _b._ Heston, Middlesex 1774;
succeeded 22 May 1818; M.P. for Berwick 29 March 1827 to 29 Dec.
1834. _d._ 10 Sep. 1860.
BLAKE, FREDERICK RODOLPH (_son of Wm. Blake of Danesbury who d. 24
Nov. 1852_). _b._ 15 Aug. 1808; ensign 85 Foot 30 June 1825;
lieut. col. 33 Foot 3 Oct. 1848 to death; served at battle of the
Alma and before Sebastopol; C.B. 5 July 1855. _d._ Rottingdean,
Sussex 23 Aug. 1855.
BLAKE, REV. GEORGE BANNERMAN. _b._ Aberdeen; ed. at Marischal
college Aberdeen; studied theology at New college Edinburgh; M.A.
1854; licensed by Presbytery of Edin. 1855; assistant pastor of
St. George’s presbyterian church Sunderland July 1856, junior
minister 9 July 1857 to death, ordained 9 July 1857; founded
Ropery lane mission, Sunderland March 1859. _d._ Sunderland 29
Aug. 1863 aged 32. _A memorial sketch of the late Rev. G. B. Blake
with a selection from his sermons_ 1864, _portrait_.
BLAKE, GEORGE CHARLES. Entered navy 2 July 1799; inspecting
commander in Coast Guard 1832–35; captain 28 June 1838; gentleman
usher to Prince Albert 1841; retired captain 15 Oct. 1852; retired
admiral 10 Sep. 1869. _d._ Bury near Gosport 14 Nov. 1872 aged 84.
BLAKE, SIR HENRY CHARLES, 4 Baronet. _b._ 23 Nov. 1794; succeeded 21
April 1832. _d._ Ashfield lodge, Great Ickworth, Suffolk 22 Jany.
1880.
BLAKE, MARTIN JOSEPH (_elder son of Walter Blake of Ballyglunin
park, Athenry, co. Galway_). _b._ 1790; M.P. for co. Galway
1833–57. _d._ Ballyglunin park March 1861.
BLAKE, PATRICK JOHN (_2 son of Sir James Henry Blake, 3 baronet who
d. 21 April, 1832_). _b._ 1797; entered navy April 1813; captain 6
May 1841; commanded the Juno 26 guns in the Pacific 3 Sep. 1845 to
14 Feb. 1849; admiral on h.p. 20 Oct. 1872. _d._ Thurston, Bury
St. Edmunds 29 Sep. 1884.
BLAKE, SIR THOMAS EDWARD, 13 Baronet. _b._ Killagh, co. Galway 25
May 1805; succeeded Jany. 1847. _d._ 2 Jany. 1875.
BLAKE, WILLIAM. Bought estate of Danesbury near Welwyn Herts. 1820;
sheriff of Herts. 1836; formed a valuable collection of modern
water colour paintings; F.R.S. 14 May 1807. _d._ Danesbury 24 Nov.
1852 aged 78.
BLAKE, WILLIAM HUME (_son of Rev. Dominick Edward Blake, R. of
Kiltegan, co. Wicklow_). _b._ Kiltegan 10 March 1809; ed. at Trin.
coll. Dublin; emigrated to Canada and settled in township of
Adelaide 1832; called to Canadian bar 1835; a bencher of Canadian
law society Nov. 1845; solicitor general 1848; chancellor of Upper
Canada 30 Sep. 1849 to 1862; judge of court of appeal; chancellor
of Univ. of Toronto; professor of law in Univ. of Toronto. _d._
Toronto 15 Nov. 1870. _Law Journal vi_, 23–24 (1871).
BLAKE, WILLIAM JOHN (_eld. son of Wm. Blake of Danesbury, Herts, who
d. 24 Nov. 1852_). _b._ 12 May 1805; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox.; double
first class 1826, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1829; barrister L.I. 10 June
1831; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 26 July 1837 to 23 June
1841, defeated by one vote only 31 July 1847; F.R.S. 20 Jany.
1831. _d._ Danesbury 15 Sep. 1875.
BLAKE, WILLIAM WILLIAMS. Cornet 20 Dragoons 26 April 1797; major 21
March 1805 to Dec. 1818 when placed on h.p.; C.B. 4 June 1815.
_d._ Brighton 21 Feb. 1863 aged 83.
BLAKELY, REV. FLETCHER (_youngest son of Joseph Bleakly of
Ballyroney, co. Down, farmer_). _b._ Ballyroney 13 May 1783; ed.
at Glasgow college; Presbyterian minister of Moneyrea, co. Down 19
Sep. 1809; the first avowed humanitarian preacher in Ulster from
which arose the proverb ‘Moneyrea, where there is one God and no
devil’; joined with his whole congregation the remonstrant
secession from the Synod of Ulster 1829; assisted Henry Montgomery
leader of the New Light party in forming remonstrant synod; joint
editor of the _Bible Christian_ 1830–33; resigned ministry of
Moneyrea 22 Sep. 1857; author of several tracts and sermons, _d._
Cradley, Worcestershire 25 Feb. 1862. _bur._ at Moneyrea.
_Inquirer 15 March 1862_; _Christian Unitarian_ (1862), _p._ 123.
BLAKELY, VERY REV. THEOPHILUS. Educ. at Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1794;
alternate morning preacher at Berkeley and Fitzroy chapels London;
dean of Connor 4 May 1811 to 6 Dec. 1824; dean of Achonry 6 Dec.
1824 to 11 May 1839; dean of Down 11 May 1839 to death; one of the
first advocates of the Irish National system of education. _d._
Clare st. Dublin 1 Dec. 1855 aged 85. _G.M. xlv_, 309 (1856).
BLAKENEY, SIR EDWARD (_4 son of colonel Wm. Blakeney M.P. for
Athenry in Irish parliament_). _b._ Newcastle 1778; Cornet 8 Light
dragoons 28 Feb. 1794; lieut. col. 7 Foot 20 June 1811 to 2 June
1825; served in the Peninsula 1811–14; commanded first brigade in
army sent to Portugal 1825; colonel 7 Foot 20 Sep. 1832 to 21 Dec.
1854; commanded troops in Ireland 1838–55; general 20 June 1854;
colonel 1 Foot 21 Dec. 1854 to death; lieutenant governor of
Chelsea hospital 6 Feb. 1855, governor 25 Sep. 1856 to death;
field marshal 9 Nov. 1862; colonel in chief of Rifle brigade 28
Aug. 1865 to death; K.T.S. 1812, K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 7 May
1849; G.C.H. 7 May 1836; P.C. Ireland 7 May 1836. _d._ Chelsea
hospital 2 Aug. 1868.
BLAKENEY, REV. RICHARD PAUL. _b._ Roscommon 2 June 1820; ed. at
Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1842, LL.B. and LLD. 1852, D.D. Edin.
1868; C. of St. Paul’s, Nottingham 1843–44; P.C. of Hyson Green,
Notts. 1844–52; P.C. of Ch. Ch. Claughton, Cheshire Jany. 1852 to
1874; V. of Bridlington 1874 to death; rural dean of Bridlington
1876 to death; canon of York 1882 to death; author of _Translation
of the Moral theology of Alphonsus Liguori_ 1845, _2 ed._ 1852; _A
manual of Romish controversy_ 1851; _Protestant Catechism_ 1854;
_History and interpretation of the Book of common prayer_ 1865, _3
ed._ 1878. _d._ Bridlington 31 Dec. 1884. _Church portrait journal
May 1880, portrait._
BLAKESLEY, VERY REV. JOSEPH WILLIAMS (_son of Jeremiah George
Blakesley of City of London, factor who d. 1817 or 1818_). _b._ 38
Coleman st. city of London 6 March 1808; ed. at St. Paul’s school
1819–27 (captain 1826–27) and C. C. coll. Cam., migrated to
Trinity college 1830, foundation scholar 1830, 21 wrangler and 3
classic 1831, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1834, B.D. 1850; fellow of Trinity
1831, assistant tutor 1834, tutor 1839–45; member of the
celebrated Apostles club at Cambridge; select preacher 1840 and
1843; V. of Ware, Herts. 30 May 1845 to 1872; canon of Canterbury
27 June 1863 to 4 July 1872; dean of Lincoln 4 July 1872 to death;
master of the Mercers Company 1864; an active member of the
committee for revision of translation of New Testament; author of
_Thoughts on the recommendations of the Ecclesiastical commission_
1837; _Life of Aristotle_ 1839; _Conciones Academicæ_ 1843;
_Herodotus with a commentary 2 vols._ 1852–54; _Four months in
Algeria, with a visit to Carthage_ 1859; wrote under signature of
“A Hertfordshire Incumbent” many letters on social questions to
_The Times_ which attracted general attention. _d._ The deanery,
Lincoln 18 April 1885. _Saturday Review lix_, 533 (1885);
_Guardian 22 April 1885_, _p._ 596.
BLAKEY, ROBERT (_son of Robert Blakey of Morpeth, Northumberland,
mechanic who d. Feb. 1796 aged 22_). _b._ Manchester lane, Morpeth
18 May 1795; wrote for the _Black Dwarf_ a London paper 1817–21
and for the _Newcastle Mag._, _Durham Chronicle_ and _Cobbett’s
Register_ 1822–32; mayor of Morpeth 1836–37; purchased the
_Newcastle Liberator_ 1 Jany. 1838 which was amalgamated with the
_Champion_ a London weekly paper 1840; started the _Politician_ a
London weekly paper of which only 6 numbers were issued; professor
of logic and metaphysics in Queen’s college Belfast Aug. 1849 to
1851; a great proficient in the art of angling; granted civil list
pension of £100, 20 Jany. 1860; author of _An essay towards an
easy and useful system of logic_ 1834, _2 ed._ 1848; _Hints on
angling by Hackle Palmer_ 1846; _History of the philosophy of the
mind 4 vols._ 1848; _The anglers complete guide to the rivers and
lakes of England_ 1854; _The history of political literature from
the earliest times 2 vols._ 1854, and of a number of minor works.
_d._ 20 Blomfield road, Shepherds Bush, London 26 Oct. 1878.
_Memoirs of R. Blakey edited by Rev. H. Miller_ 1879.
BLAKISTON, ANNE (_elder dau. of John Rochfort of Clogrenane, co.
Carlow_). _m._ Sep. 1782 Sir Matthew Blakiston, 2 baronet, who was
_b._ 1760 and _d._ 20 Sep. 1806, she _d._ Lymington, Hants, 27
Nov. 1862 in 102 year.
BLAKISTON, SIR MATTHEW, 3 Baronet. _b._ Athlone 13 May 1783;
succeeded 20 Sep, 1806. _d._ Sandybrooke hall, Ashbourne,
Derbyshire 23 Dec. 1862.
BLAKISTON, SIR MATTHEW, 4 Baronet. _b._ Bath 15 Jany. 1811; ed. at
the Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Dub.; succeeded 23 Dec. 1862.
_d._ Sandybrooke hall 3 Dec. 1883.
BLAKISTON, PEYTON (_youngest child of Sir Matthew Blakiston, 2
baronet 1760–1806_). _b._ 6 Sep. 1801; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll.
Cam.; migrated to Em. coll., a Dixie fellow; B.A. 1823, M.A. 1827,
M.L. 1837, M.D. 1841; C. of Bilton, co. Warwick; V. of Lymington,
Hants. 1830–33; studied medicine at Cambridge and Paris; practised
at Birmingham, phys. to general hospital 1841; F.R.S. 21 Jany.
1840; F.R.C.P. 1843; practised at St. Leonard’s on Sea 1848–71;
author of _On diseases of the Chest_ 1848; _Clinical observations
on diseases of the heart_ 1865; _Clinical reminiscences_ 1878.
_d._ 140 Harley st. London 17 Dec. 1878. _Proc. of Med. and Chir.
Soc. viii_, 397–99 (1880); _Proc. of Royal Soc. xxix_, 1–2 (1879).
BLAMIRE, GEORGE. Barrister L.I. 25 June 1819; owner of large estates
in Cumberland and Glamorganshire; occupied 3 rooms on first floor
of 1 Adam st. Adelphi, London 1847 to death; slept in an arm chair
last 16 years of his life; found dead in his chair at 1 Adam st.
17 Sep. 1863, having probably died 13 or 14 Sep. aged 75.
BLAMIRE, JANE CHRISTIAN (_2 dau. of Wm. Blamire of The Oaks near
Dalston, Cumberland, surgeon who d. 29 Jany. 1814_). _b._ The Oaks
20 March 1788; housekeeper to her brother at Thackwood, Cumberland
1813 to 1831; a great philanthropist. _d._ Thackwood 20 Sep. 1857.
_H. Lonsdale’s Worthies of Cumberland iv_, 117–39 (1873).
BLAMIRE, WILLIAM (_only brother of the preceding_). _b._ The Oaks 13
April 1790; ed. at Carlisle and Westminster; entered Ch. Ch. Ox.
Oct. 1808, B.A. 1811; a great stock breeder, went to all the fairs
in Scotland and North England; sheriff of Cumberland 1828; M.P.
for Cumberland 9 May 1831 to 3 Dec. 1832, for East Cumberland 17
Dec. 1832 to Aug. 1836; made a great speech in House of Commons on
Tithe Commutation bill 25 March 1836; Tithe comr. for England and
Wales 22 Aug. 1836 to 8 Aug. 1851 when the commission expired
after having converted tithes into rent charges amounting to more
than £4,000,000 per annum; Copyhold and Tithe comr. 22 June 1841;
Inclosure comr. 21 Aug. 1845 to 1860. _d._ Thackwood near Carlisle
12 Jany. 1862. _A biographical sketch of the late W. Blamire by H.
Lonsdale, M.D._ 1862.
BLANC, JEAN JOSEPH LOUIS. _b._ Madrid 28 Oct. 1813; clerk in a
lawyer’s office in Paris 1830; edited a journal called _Le Bon
Sens_ 1836–38; founded _La revue du progrès_ 1838 in which he
advocated socialistic ideas; published _The organisation of
labour_ 1841; _Histoire des dix ans_ 1841 which helped to
precipitate the revolution of 1848; a member of the Provisional
government 1848; pres. of the Labour commission; declined the
Dictatorship; a member of the National Assembly; proscribed by the
Assembly; lived in exile in England 1849–70; correspondent to
several French journals; published _Letters on England_, _2 series
2 vols._ 1867; a member of French National Assembly Feb. 1871 to
death. _d._ Cannes 6 Dec. 1882. _Louis Blanc, sa vie, ses œuvres,
par C. Robin_ 1851, _portrait_; _Louis Blanc, par C. Edmond_ 1882,
_portrait_; _I.L.N. xii_, 182 (1848), _portrait, xiii_, 189
(1848), _portrait, lxxxi_, 629 (1882), _portrait_.
NOTE.—When an attempt was made to assassinate him in Paris 15
Aug. 1839 his brother Charles Blanc had a vivid presentiment
of the scene, an incident on which Dumas founded the play of
the Corsican Brothers.
BLANCHARD, EDMUND FORSTER (_youngest son of Samuel Laman Blanchard
of London, author 1804–45_). contributed to many periodicals;
connected with _Lloyd’s Newspaper_ some time; author with Edward
Wilberforce of _Poems_ 1857; published _The poetical works of
Oliver Goldsmith with a notice of his life and genius_ 1867. _d._
20 Air st. Piccadilly, London 25 July 1870 aged 38.
BLANCHARD, SIDNEY LAMAN (_elder brother of the preceding_). Author
of _The Ganges and the Seine 2 vols._ 1862; _Yesterday and to-day
in India_ 1867; _Riddles of love or the knave of hearts 3 vols._
1871. _d._ Brighton 9 Nov. 1883.
BLANCHARD, THOMAS. Pantaloon at Covent Garden theatre 26 Dec. 1827;
acquired considerable repute as a broadswordsman; obtained great
fame at the old Coburg theatre London for the celebrated drunken
combat with Thomas Bradley in _The Maid of Genoa_ 1828; said to be
original inventor of the “one two three and under” style of using
the broadsword; last appeared as pantaloon at Victoria theatre
1845; built some cottages at back of Victoria theatre which still
bear his name; _d._ London 20 Aug. 1859 aged 72.
BLAND, VENERABLE GEORGE (_2 son of Michael Bland F.R.S. who d. 19
April 1851 aged 74_). _b._ 1804; ed. at Caius coll. Cam., B.A.
1828, M.A. 1831; R. of Slinfold Sussex 1836–44; archdeacon of
Lindisfarne 7 May 1844 to 1853; archdeacon of Northumberland 1853
to death; R. of St. Mary-le-Bow Durham 1856–59. _d._ The college,
Durham 17 Feb. 1880.
BLAND, HUMPHREY. _b._ England 1812; an actor at Surrey theatre
London 1834; went to America 1844; made his début at Park theatre
New York 1 Sep. 1845 as Lewson in _The Gamester_; first appeared
in Philadelphia 4 March 1850 at the Arch st. theatre as Joseph
Surface in _The school for scandal_. _d._ New York 17 Jany. 1869.
BLAND, JAMES (_2 son of George Bland of London, actor by Maria
Theresa Romanzini of London, vocalist 1769–1838_). _b._ 5 March
1798; made his first appearance in London at English opera house 1
July 1822 in an operetta called _Love among the roses_; comedian
at Drury Lane and Haymarket, at Olympic 1831, at Covent Garden
1839, at Lyceum and Adelphi, and at Strand theatre down to his
death. _d._ at stage door of Strand theatre, Surrey st. London 17
July 1861.
BLAND, LOFTUS HENRY (_3 son of John Bland of Blandsfort, Queen’s
county who d. 11 Nov. 1810_). _b._ Blandsfort Aug. 1805; ed. at
Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; called to Irish bar 1829;
M.P. for King’s county 26 July 1852 to 23 April 1859; Q.C. 28
Jany. 1854; chairman of quarter sessions co. Cavan 1862. _d._ 33
Merrion sq. Dublin 21 Jany. 1872.
BLAND, MICHAEL (_only child of Thomas Bland of Norwich, merchant who
d. 28 Aug. 1818 in 79 year_). Partner in firm of Whitbread and Co.
of London, brewers; F.R.S. 8 Feb. 1816, F.S.A., F.G.S. _d._ 65
Cambridge terrace, Hyde park, London 19 April 1851 aged 74.
BLAND, REV. MILES (_son of Thomas Bland_). _b._ Sedbergh 11 Oct.
1786; ed. at Sedbergh sch. and St. John’s coll. Cam., 2 wrangler
and Smith’s prizeman 1808, B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, B.D. 1818, D.D.
1826, fellow of his college 5 April 1808, assistant tutor 1809,
tutor to 1823; R. of Lilley, Herts. 16 May 1823 to death; preb. of
Wells cathedral 18 April 1826 to death; F.R.S. 12 April 1821,
F.R.A.S., F.S.A.; author of _Algebraical problems_ 1812, _9 ed._
1849; _Geometrical problems_ 1819, _3 ed._ 1827; _Annotations on
the historical books of the New Testament 2 vols._ 1828–29;
_Mechanical and philosophical problems_ 1830. _d._ 5 Royal
crescent, Ramsgate 27 Dec. 1867.
BLAND, WILLIAM (_younger son of Robert Bland of London, physician
who d. 29 June 1816 aged 76_). _b._ London 5 Nov. 1789; surgeon’s
mate on board a man-of-war; fought a duel with the purser of his
ship in the Persian gulf when he shot his opponent dead; fought
another duel with Lieut. Wm. Randall, tried at Calcutta and
sentenced to 7 years transportation 1814, exiled to Sydney 1814,
obtained a free pardon; surgeon at Sydney 1815 to death; fined £50
with 12 months in Paramatta gaol for libelling Governor Macquarie;
a naval surgeon 7 July 1826; member for Sydney to first elective
legislature of New South Wales 15 June 1843 to 1848; presented
with a testimonial of £1000 by people of Sydney 14 Sep. 1858. _d._
28 College st. Sydney 21 July 1868. _Carlisle’s History of family
of Bland_ (1826) 235–47; _Illust. news of the world iv_, 68
(1859), _portrait_; _Heads of the people ii_, 67 (1848),
_portrait_.
BLANE, ARCHIBALD WILLIAM. _b._ 29 March 1788; member of council
Mauritius; discovered the wealth of the Peel river district
Australia; deputy governor of Australian Agricultural company 1845
to death. _d._ Booral, Port Stephens 6 Nov. 1852.
BLANE, DAVID ANDERSON. _b._ 1801; entered Bombay civil service 1819;
member of council at Bombay 1 March 1849 to 1854 when he retired
on annuity. _d._ 21 Prince’s gardens, South Kensington, London 17
June 1879.
BLANE, SIR HUGH SEYMOUR, 2 Baronet. _b._ 29 July 1795; ed. at the
Charterhouse 1803–7; ensign 3 Foot guards 31 March 1814, captain
30 Aug. 1831 to 1835; succeeded 27 June 1834. _d._ The Pastures
near Derby 14 April 1869.
BLANE, ROBERT. Cornet 2 Life Guards 1 Nov. 1831; assistant adjutant
general and military sec. 1854–55; military attaché at St.
Petersburgh 21 July 1866 to death; colonel 11 April 1860; C.B. 2
Jany. 1857. _d._ 11 Eaton terrace, Eaton sq. London 30 May 1871.
BLANSHARD, THOMAS. Second lieut. R.E. 28 Sep. 1807, colonel 5 July
1851 to 16 Dec. 1854, M.G. 16 Dec. 1854; C.B. 19 July 1838. _d._
Grove house, Hampton, Middlesex 19 June 1859 aged 70.
BLANSHARD, WILLIAM (_eld. son of Richard Blanshard of
Northallerton_). _b._ 29 June 1802; served in East India company’s
navy 1817–19; barrister I.T. 16 May 1828; recorder of Ripon
1830–35; revising barrister 1832–63; advocate in all the Courts of
Archbishop of Canterbury, who created him M.A. 18 Feb. 1839;
recorder of Doncaster June 1857 to July 1870; judge of
Northumberland county court (circuit No. 1.) 10 Jany. 1863 to Oct.
1871; author of _A treatise on the statutes of limitations_ 1826.
_d._ Scarborough 28 Nov. 1872.
BLANTYRE, LADY EVELYN (_2 dau. of 2 Duke of Sutherland 1786–1861_).
_b._ 2 Hamilton place, Piccadilly, London 8 Aug. 1825. (_m._ 4
Oct. 1843 Charles Stuart, 12 Baron Blantyre who was _b._ 21 Dec.
1818). _d._ Nice 24 Nov. 1869. _Sir. H. Nicolas’s Court of Queen
Victoria_ (1845) 13–18, _portrait_; _Illust. News of the world
ix_, (1862), _portrait_.
BLASIS, CARLO (_son of Francesco Antonio Blasis of Naples, ballet
composer_). _b._ Naples 4 Dec. 1803; a principal dancer at
Marseilles, Bordeaux, Paris and Milan 1816–26; dancer and ballet
composer at the King’s theatre London 1826; finishing master of
the Imperial Academy of dancing at Milan 1 Dec. 1837; ballet
composer at Royal Italian opera Covent Garden 1846; composed the
Spanish dances which were performed at the public breakfasts given
by the Duchess of St. Albans; wrote more than 50 ballets; wrote
the chapters upon private dancing in _The young lady’s book_
1828–29; author of _The code of Terpsichore_ 1830. _d._ Cernolio
near lake of Como Jany. 1878. _Notes upon dancing by C. Blasis_
(1847) 36–148, _portrait_.
BLAXLAND, GREGORY. _b._ Kent 1771; emigrated to Sydney 1806; crossed
the Blue Mountains with W. C. Wentworth May 1813 after several
unsuccessful attempts had been made to do so; introduced
cultivation of oaten hay into colony of New South Wales. _d._ 3
Jany. 1853.
BLAYNEY, CADWALLADER DAVIS BLAYNEY, 12 Baron. _b._ Dover st.
Piccadilly, London 19 Dec. 1802; M.P. for Monaghan 18 Aug. 1830 to
8 April 1834, when he succeeded; an Irish representative peer 12
June 1841 to death. _d._ 18 Jany. 1874.
BLECKLEY, THOMAS MACDOUGALL (_son of Rev. John Bleckley_). _b._ 13
Dec. 1828; assistant surgeon in the army 6 Jany. 1854; surgeon
major 1 March 1873 to 24 Jany. 1880; C.B. 31 March 1874. _d._
Lorne house, Central hill, Upper Norwood 23 Nov. 1882.
BLEECK, ARTHUR HENRY. _b._ about 1829; employed in the British
Museum; held a post in connection with the land transport corps at
Sinope during Crimean war; author with W. B. Barker of _A
practical grammar of the Turkish language_ 1854; author of _A
concise grammar of the Persian language_ 1857; _Catalogue of the
Napoleon library in the possession of Mr. Joshua Bates privately
printed_ 1858; _Avesta, the religious books of the Parsees, from
Spiegel’s German translation of the original manuscripts 3 vols._
1864. _d._ 56 Bevington road, Kensington 27 Jany. 1877 aged 47.
BLEEK, WILHELM HEINRICH IMMANUEL (_son of Friedrich Bleek of Berlin,
biblical critic 1793–1859_). _b._ Berlin 8 March 1827; ed. at Bonn
and Berlin; studied habits and language of the Kaffirs in Natal
1855–57; interpreter to Sir George Grey at Cape Town 1857;
librarian of the valuable collection of rare books presented by
Sir G. Grey to the colony at Cape Town 1 Feb. 1862 to death;
granted civil list pension of £150, 18 June 1870. (_m._ Jemima
Charlotte, she was granted a civil list pension of £100, 13 June
1877); author of _The languages of Mozambique_ 1856; _The library
of Sir George Grey 2 vols._ 1858–59; _Comparative grammar of South
African languages_, _2 parts_ 1862–69; _Reynard the Fox in South
Africa, or Hottentot tales and fables_ 1864; _Bushman folklore_
1875. _d._ Cape Town 17 Aug. 1875. _Cape Monthly Mag. xi_, 167–69
(1875).
BLENKINS, WILLIAM BAZETT GOODWIN. Captain 6 Bombay native infantry
26 April 1842 to death; C.B. 4 July 1843. _d._ Bombay 12 June
1852.
BLENKIRON, WILLIAM (_son of Mr. Blenkiron of Marrick near Richmond,
Yorkshire, farmer_). _b._ Marrick 1807; a general agent at 78½
Wood st. Cheapside, London 1834–48; a breeder of race horses at
Dalston 1848, at Middle park near Eltham 1852 to death; his
breeding stud gradually became the largest in England; held his
first sale of blood stock at Middle park June 1856, held two
annual sales there 1867 to death; bred Hermit winner of the Derby
1867, and Gamos winner of the Oaks 1870; gave 5000 guineas for
Blink Bonny, 5000 guineas for Blair Athol, and 5800 guineas for
Gladiateur; founded the great two year old race at Newmarket,
namely The Middle Park Plate 1866. _d._ Middle Park 25 Sep. 1871
in 64 year. _Rice’s History of the British turf ii_, 338–44
(1879); _Gent. Mag. iii_, 451–62 (1869); _I.L.N. lix_, 377 (1871),
_portrait_; _Illust. sporting and dramatic news i_, 181 (1874),
_portrait_; _Sporting life 27 Sep. 1871_, _p._ 2, _cols._ 1, 5, 4
_Oct._ _p._ 2, _col._ 6.
BLEWITT, JONATHAN (_son of Jonas Blewitt of London, organist who d.
1805_). _b._ about 1781; organist in London, at Haverhill and at
Brecon; organist of St. Andrew’s Dublin; composer and director of
music at T. R. Dublin; grand organist to Freemasons of Ireland;
wrote pantomime music for most of the London theatres 1826–52;
director of music at Sadler’s Wells Theatre 1828–29, at Vauxhall
gardens 1838 and at Tivoli gardens Margate; wrote a few light
operas and upwards of 2000 pieces of vocal music, most of them
comic songs, the best known are _Barney Brallaghan’s Courtship_
and _The merry little fat grey man_ 1845, which he used to sing
inimitably; composed the tune of _The Perfect Cure_ 1844 which was
associated with a now forgotten song called _The monkey and the
nuts_, 20 years afterwards it was utilised by James Hurst Stead
who became known as The Perfect Cure, and cleared more than £2000
by linking the tune with other words. _d._ London 4 Sep. 1853 in
73 year.
BLEWITT, OCTAVIAN (_son of John Edwards Blewitt of London, merchant
1784–1860_). _b._ St. Helen’s place, Bishopsgate, London 3 Oct.
1810; ed. at Plymouth gr. sch.; travelled in Italy, Egypt, Greece,
Turkey and other countries 1837–39; secretary of Royal literary
fund in London 13 March 1839 to death; elected a member of the
Athenæum club 1848 by a majority of 112 votes to 2; F.G.S. 1835; a
knight of order of Leopold of Belgium 1872; edited the newspaper
portion of the _Gardener’s Chronicle_ 1840–69; author of _A
panorama of Torquay_ 1830; _A sketch of the district comprised
between the Dart and the Teign_ 1832; _Treatise on the happiness
arising from the exercise of the Christian faith_ 1832; _Handbook
for travellers in Central Italy_ 1843 (_anon._) _2 ed._ (_with the
author’s name_) 1850; _Handbook for travellers in Southern Italy_
1853. _d._ 133 Elgin crescent, London 4 Nov. 1884. _Biograph v_,
170–85 (1881).
BLEWITT, REGINALD JAMES (_2 son of Edward Blewitt of Llantarnam
abbey, Monmouthshire who d. 8 March 1832 in 70 year_). _b._ 26 May
1799; ed. at Rugby; solicitor at 8 New square Lincoln’s Inn London
1821–27; M.P. for borough of Monmouth 24 July 1837 to March 1852;
established the _Monmouthshire Merlin_ a liberal paper 1829,
edited it 1829–32; manager of Monmouthshire bank which failed for
a very large sum. _d._ The Priory, Putney 11 Sep. 1878. _Law Times
lxv_, 405 (1878).
BLIGH, SIR JOHN DUNCAN (_2 son of John Bligh, 4 Earl of Darnley
1767–1831_). _b._ London 11 Oct. 1798; ed. at Eton, and Ch. Ch.
Ox., B.A. 1821, B.C.L. 1828, D.C.L. 1836; paid attaché in Paris 9
May 1828; sec. of legation at Florence 30 July 1829; sec. of
embassy at The Hague 1 Nov. 1830; Min. plenipo. at The Hague 3
July 1832, at St. Petersburg 7 Sep. 1832, at Stockholm 28 Oct.
1835, and at Hanover 17 April 1838 to 14 June 1856 when he
retired; C.B. 1 March 1851, K.C.B. 30 Sep. 1856. _d._ Sandgate,
Kent 8 May 1872.
BLIGHT, WILLIAM. Entered navy 9 May 1793; captain 22 July 1830;
retired R.A. 27 Sep. 1855. _d._ Stonehouse, Plymouth 22 July 1862
aged 77.
BLISS, HENRY (_4 son of Jonathan Bliss of New Brunswick_). _b._ New
Brunswick; barrister I.T. 9 Feb. 1827, bencher 1850, reader 1863,
treasurer 1864; Q.C. 1850; agent in England for Nova Scotia many
years; author of _On colonial intercourse_ 1830; _Statistics of
the trade, industry and resources of Canada_ 1833; _State trials,
specimen of a new edition by N. T. Moile, pseud._ 1838; _Cicero, a
drama by N. T. Moile_, 1847; _Robespierre, a tragedy_ 1854. _d._
Folkestone 31 July 1873 aged 76.
BLISS, REV. PHILIP (_son of Rev. Philip Bliss 1742–1803 R. of
Frampton Cotterell, Gloucs_). _b._ Chipping Sodbury, Gloucs. 21
Dec. 1787; ed. at Merchant Taylors’ 1797–1806 and St. John’s coll.
Ox., scholar 1806, law fellow 1809, B.C.L. 1815, D.C.L. 1820;
assistant librarian Bodleian library 1810, under librarian July
1822 to Dec. 1828; prepared the first 136 pages of the catalogue
issued 1814; C. of Newington, Oxon. 1817 to Feb. 1830; registrar
of the University 1824 to April 1853; chaplain at Studley Priory
1830–55; registrar of the University Court 1831; principal of St.
Mary hall Ox. April 1848 to death; edited Bishop Earle’s
_Microcosmography_ 1811; Anthony à Wood’s _Athenæ Oxonienses and
Fasti 4 vols._ 1813–20; _Reliquiæ Hearnianæ the remains of Thomas
Hearne 2 vols._ 1857, _2 ed._ 1869 and many other books. _d._ the
Lodgings St. Mary Hall, Oxford 18 Nov. 1857. _Dict. of Nat. Biog.
v_, 221–22 (1886).
BLITZ, ANTONIO. _b._ Deal, Kent 21 June 1810; made his first
appearance on the stage as a ventriloquist and conjurer at Hamburg
Sep. 1823; performed in all the cities of North Europe; first
appeared in England at Dover Dec. 1825, and in London at Coburg
theatre, Lent 1828; sailed for New York 1 Aug. 1834; in 1870 there
were 13 conjurers travelling in America under assumed name of
Blitz. _d._ Philadelphia 28 Jany. 1877. _Fifty years in the magic
circle by Signor Blitz_ (1871), _portrait_.
BLOCHMANN, HENRY. _b._ Dresden 7 Jany. 1838; landed at Calcutta Sep.
1858; professor of mathematics at the Doveton college Calcutta
1862–65; M.A. Calcutta Univ. 1865; assistant professor of the
Calcutta Madrassa 1865, principal 1875 to death; member of Asiatic
Society of Bengal 6 April 1864, sec. 1868 to death; author of _The
Prosody of the Persians_ 1872; _School geography of India_ 1873;
_English and Urdu school dictionary Romanized_, _8 ed._ 1877; _The
first geography, 17 ed._ 1879. _d._ Calcutta 13 July 1878. _Proc.
of Asiatic Society of Bengal_ (1878) 164–67.
BLOCKLEY, JOHN. _b._ 1801; Music publisher at 3 Argyll st. Regent
st. London; composed many ballads, several of which were very
popular namely the duet _List tis music stealing_ and the songs
_Love not_ and _The Englishman_. _d._ 6 Park road, Haverstock
hill, London 24 Dec. 1882.
BLOIS, SIR CHARLES, 7 Baronet. _b._ Sway, Hants. 1794; lieut. col.
East Suffolk militia 1844 to 1853; succeeded 20 Aug. 1850. _d._
Cockfield hall, Suffolk 12 June 1855.
BLOMEFIELD, REV. SIR THOMAS EARDLEY WILMOT, 3 Baronet. _b._ Peamore
near Exeter 3 Aug. 1820; succeeded 30 June 1858, V. of All Saint’s
Pontefract 1859–72; master of Archbishop Holgate’s hospital near
Hemsworth 1872 to death. _d._ Holgate lodge, Pontefract 21 Nov.
1878.
BLOMEFIELD, SIR THOMAS WILLIAM, 2 Baronet. _b._ Arlington st.
Piccadilly, London 24 March 1791; succeeded 24 Aug. 1822. _d._
Egremont lodge, Brighton 30 June 1858.
BLOMFIELD, RIGHT REV. CHARLES JAMES (_eld. son of Charles Blomfield
of Bury St. Edmunds, school master who d. 28 Sep. 1831 in 69
year_). _b._ Bury St. Edmunds 29 May 1786; ed. at Bury gr. sch.
and Trin. coll. Cam.; scholar 1805, fellow Oct. 1809, Craven Univ.
scholar 1806, 3 wrangler and Chancellor’s classical medallist
1808; B.A. 1808, M.A. 1811, B.D. 1818, D.D. 1820; R. of Dunton,
Bucks. Dec. 1811; V. and R. of Great and Little Chesterford July
1817; R. of Tuddenham, Suffolk 1817; R. of St. Botolph,
Bishopsgate May 1820; archdeacon of Colchester 15 Jany. 1822 to 4
June 1824; bishop of Chester 8 June 1824, consecrated in Whitehall
chapel 20 June; bishop of London 15 Aug. 1828 to 30 Sep. 1856 when
he resigned on a pension of £6000; P.C. 31 July 1828; admitted
dean of chapels royal 12 Dec. 1828, enthroned in St. Paul’s
cathedral 16 Jany. 1829; member of Ecclesiastical commission 1836
of which he was the moving spirit; published editions of
_Prometheus Vinctus_ 1810, _Septem contra Thebas_ 1812, _Persæ_
1814, _Choephoræ_ 1821; an edition of _Callimachus_ 1815 and of
_Euripides_ 1821; wrote on classical subjects for _Edinburgh_ and
_Quarterly Reviews_, and for the _Museum Criticum_ a journal
established by himself and James Henry Monk 1813. _d._ Fulham
palace 5 Aug. 1857. _A memoir of C. J. Blomfield edited by his son
Alfred Blomfield, 2 ed._ 1864; _Rev. G. E. Biber’s Bishop
Blomfield and his times_ 1857; _H. Martineau’s Biographical
sketches, 4 ed._ (1876) 167–74; _I.L.N. xxiv_, 401 (1854),
_portrait_.
BLOOD, BINDON. _b._ Cranacher, Ireland; lived at 22 Queen st.
Edinburgh 1829–42; an original member of the Abbotsford Club 20
March 1833; a great collector of books which were piled in great
heaps in his garrets, cellars and warerooms like unsorted goods;
known as The Vampire and The Dragon. _d._ Ireland 1855. _Crombie’s
Modern Athenians_ (1882) 11–14, _portrait_; _J. H. Burton’s The
bookhunter, new ed._ (1882) 55–58.
BLOOD, CLEMENTS. Lieutenant Bombay artillery 10 June 1821; major
Bombay artillery 10 Nov. 1854; brigadier in command at Ahmednuggur
12 March 1855 to 18 Feb. 1858, and at Hyderabad 18 Feb. 1858 to 12
May 1859 when he retired with rank of M.G. _d._ Chiswick,
Middlesex 10 April 1869 aged 63.
BLOOD, RICHARD. Lieutenant 6 Bombay N.I. 20 April 1819, lieut. col.
1 European regiment 1 Nov. 1852 to 18 May 1858; M.G. 1 Dec. 1858.
_d._ 6 Circus road, St. John’s Wood, London 8 July 1877 aged 74.
BLOOMFIELD, JOHN ARTHUR DOUGLAS BLOOMFIELD, 2 Baron (_eld. child of
Benjamin Bloomfield, 1 Baron Bloomfield 1768–1846_). _b._ 12 Nov.
1802; attaché at Vienna 16 Feb. 1818; envoy extraord. and min.
plenipo. at St. Petersburgh 3 April 1844, at Berlin 28 April 1851,
at Vienna 22 Nov. 1860 to 28 Oct. 1871 when he retired on a
pension; succeeded 15 Aug. 1846; C.B. 27 April 1848, K.C.B. 1
March 1851, G.C.B. 3 Sep. 1858, P.C. 17 Dec. 1860; created Baron
Bloomfield of Ciamhaltha in the United Kingdom 7 Aug. 1871. (_m._
4 Sep. 1845 Georgiana 16 and youngest child of 1 Baron
Ravensworth, she was _b._ 13 April 1822). _d._ Ciamhaltha,
Newport, Tipperary 17 Aug. 1879. _Reminiscences of court and
diplomatic life by Georgiana Baroness Bloomfield ii_, 310 (1883),
_portrait_.
BLOOMFIELD, HENRY KEANE. Ensign 59 Foot 30 Sep. 1813; lieut. col. 11
Foot 27 June 1845 to 1 April 1859 when placed on h.p.; colonel 64
Foot 20 Jany. 1867 to death; L.G. 13 Aug. 1868. _d._ 108 Jermyn
st. Piccadilly, London 11 Feb. 1870 aged 72.
BLOOMFIELD, SIR JOHN (_son of Patrick Bloomfield of Sligo_). _b._
1793; ed. at Woolwich; 2 lieut. R.A. 28 April 1810, colonel 28
Nov. 1854, colonel commandant 5 April 1866 to death; aide-de-camp
to the Queen 20 June 1854 to 25 Sep. 1859; inspector general of
artillery 1 May 1859 to 30 June 1864; general 26 Nov. 1876; K.C.B.
13 March 1867, G.C.B. 24 May 1873. _d._ 108 Jermyn st. London 1
Aug. 1880.
BLOOMFIELD, REV. SAMUEL THOMAS. Educ. at Sid. Sus. coll. Cam., B.A.
1808, M.A. 1811, D.D. 1829; V. of Bisbrooke, Rutland 1814 to
death; hon. canon of Peterborough cath. 1854 to death; granted
civil list pension of £200, 30 June 1846; author of _Recensio
synoptica annotationis sacræ, being a critical digest of the most
important annotations on the New Testament 8 vols._ 1826–28;
_Translation of Thucydides 3 vols._ 1829; _The Greek Testament
with English notes 2 vols._ 1832, _12 ed._ 1870; _A Greek and
English lexicon to the New Testament_ 1840, _2 ed._ 1845. _d._
Hone house, Wandsworth common near London 28 Sep. 1869 aged 85.
BLORE, EDWARD (_eld. son of Thomas Blore of Derby, topographer
1764–1818_). _b._ Derby 13 Sep. 1787; architect and artist;
designed exterior of Abbotsford for Sir Walter Scott 1816;
designed organ-screen and choir fittings of Peterborough
cathedral; restored Glasgow cathedral and Merton college chapel;
special architect to Wm. iv and Victoria; completed erection of
Buckingham Palace for £100,000, 1837; architect at Westminster
Abbey; declined honour of knighthood; F.S.A. 27 Nov. 1823; D.C.L.
Oxford 1834; F.R.S. 10 June 1841; a founder of Royal Archæological
Institute Dec. 1843; author of _The monumental remains of noble
and eminent persons comprising the sepulchral antiquities of Great
Britain_ 1825. _d._ 4 Manchester sq. London 4 Sep. 1879. _Proc. of
Soc. of Antiq. viii_, 347–52 (1881); _I.L.N. lxxv_, 280 (1879),
_portrait_.
BLORE, REV. EDWARD WILLIAM (_elder son of the preceding_). _b._
London 24 Jany. 1828; ed. at Eton 1842–47, member of the cricket
eleven; began residence at Trin. coll. Cam. Oct. 1847, scholar
1849, fellow Oct. 1853; in the Cambridge eleven 1848–51; 37
wrangler 1851, B.A. 1851; assistant tutor of his college 1857,
tutor 1862, senior tutor 1868–75, senior dean 1860–66; prime mover
in restoration of Trin. coll. chapel, only important building in
England founded by Queen Mary. _d._ Trinity college, Cambridge 24
June 1885. _The little journal i_, 77–88 (1884).
BLORE, ROBERT. Manufacturer of small porcelain biscuit figures in
Bridge gate, Derby 1830; very clever in making pastes and glazes;
an assistant at Mason’s factory at Lane Delph; superintended a
pot-works at Middlesbrough until his death. _d._ about 1866.
BLOUNT, SIR EDWARD, 8 Baronet. _b._ Mawley hall, Cleobury Mortimer,
Salop 3 March 1795; succeeded 31 Oct. 1803; sheriff of
Worcestershire 1835. _d._ Mawley hall 28 April 1881.
BLOXAM, REV. ANDREW (_4 son of Rev. Richard Rouse Bloxam, assistant
master of Rugby school 38 years who d. 28 March 1840_). _b._ Rugby
22 Sep. 1801; ed. at Rugby 1808–20 and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A.
1824, M.A. 1827; fellow of his college; naturalist on board the
Blonde frigate (which conveyed bodies of King and Queen of
Sandwich Islands to their native land) 1824–26; P.C. of Twycross,
Leics. 1839–71; R. of Harborough Magna 1871 to death; wrote on
conchology, ornithology and plants; author of _A guide to Bradgate
park with natural history of Charnwood Forest_ 1829. _d._
Harborough Magna 2 Feb. 1878. _Midland Naturalist_, _April 1878
pp._ 88–90.
NOTE.—A water-colour drawing by Turner in the National Gallery
represents A. Bloxam and his five brothers attending the
funeral of their uncle Sir T. Lawrence, R.A.
BLOXAM, CHARLES JOHN. Admitted solicitor Trinity term 1821;
practised in London to death, probably oldest solicitor in
practice on the rolls; senior member of court of Clothworkers’
Company, served as master when the new hall was opened by Prince
Albert 27 March 1860. _d._ 16 Bedford place, Russell sq. London 25
Feb. 1885 in 85 year.
BLOXAM, REV. RICHARD ROWLAND (_elder brother of Rev. A. Bloxam_).
_b._ Jany. 1798; ed. at Rugby and Worcester coll. Ox., B.A. 1819;
master of Guilsborough gr. sch. 1821–24; chaplain of Pembroke
dockyard 1845; domestic chaplain to Earl Ferrers 1848; R. of
Harlaston, Tamworth 1850 to death; author of _A voyage to the
Sandwich Islands in H.M.S. Blonde_. _d._ Leamington 23 Jany. 1877.
BLOXAM, THOMAS. _b._ London 1836; ed. at city of London school and
King’s college; chemist to Industrial museum of Scotland 1860 to
date when office was abolished; lecturer on chemistry at St.
George’s hospital London; lecturer in experimental and natural
science at Cheltenham college 1862 to death; F.C.S. 1859, F.G.S.
1869. _d._ London July 1872. _Cheltenham College Mag. iii_, 258–59
(1872).
BLUNDELL, FREDERICK. Second lieutenant Madras artillery 1813,
colonel 4 May 1858 to death; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854.
_d._ Cheltenham 5 July 1860 aged 62.
BLUNDELL, JAMES. _b._ London 27 Dec. 1790; ed. at United Borough
hospitals and Univ. of Edin., M.D. 24 June 1813; physician in
London 1813 to death; L.R.C.P. 25 June 1818, F.R.C.P. 6 Aug. 1838;
lecturer at Guy’s hospital 1819 to 1836; his class on Midwifery
was largest in London; author of _Researches, physiological and
pathological_ 1825; _Principles and practice of Obstetricy_ 1834;
_Observations on some of the more important diseases of women_
1837; _d._ 80 Piccadilly, London 15 Jany. 1878. Personalty sworn
under £350,000, 9 Feb. 1878. _Pettigrew’s Medical portrait gallery
vol. 1_ (1840), _portrait_; _W. C. Taylor’s National portrait
gallery ii_, 59 (1846), _portrait_; _Medical Circular i_, 283
(1852).
BLUNT, JOHN ELIJAH. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; B.A. 1819, M.A. 1822;
barrister L.I. 24 June 1822; a comr. in lunacy 1833–42; master in
chancery 26 Nov. 1849 to death; author of _A history of the
establishment and residence of the Jews in England with an enquiry
into their civil disabilities_ 1830. _d._ 45 Dover st. Piccadilly,
London 28 June 1856 aged 59.
BLUNT, REV. JOHN HENRY. _b._ Chelsea 25 Aug. 1823; a manufacturing
chemist in London; entered Univ. coll. Durham 1850, L. Th. 1852,
hon. M.A. 1855, hon. D.D. June 1882; C. of Tynemouth,
Northumberland 1853–54; C. of Breamore, Hants. 1867–68; V. of
Kennington near Oxford 1868–73; R. of Beverstone, Gloucs. 20 Jany.
1873 to death; F.S.A. 7 June 1866; author of _The Atonement_ 1855;
_Three essays on the Reformation_ 1860; _Key to the Bible_ 1865;
_Annotated book of Common Prayer_ 1866, _new ed._ 1884; _History
of the Reformation_ 1868; _Dictionary of theology_ 1870, _2 ed._
1872; _The book of church law_ 1872; _Dictionary of sects and
heresies_ 1874; _Annotated Bible_ 1878 and many other books. _d._
London 11 April 1884. _Church Times 18 April 1884 p._ 303.
BLUNT, REV. JOHN JAMES (_son of Rev. John Blunt V. of
Lilleshall, Shropshire who d. 14 June 1843 aged 77_). _b._
Newcastle-under-Lyme 1794; entered St. John’s coll. Cam. 1812,
first Bell scholar 1813, 15 wrangler 1816, B.A. 1816, M.A.
1819, B.D. 1826, fellow of his college 1816; travelling
bachelor 1818, travelled in Italy and Sicily; C. of Hodnet,
Shropshire 1823; C. of Chetwynd, Shropshire; Hulsean lecturer
at Cam. 1831–32; R. of Great Oakley, Essex 1834–39; Lady
Margaret professor of divinity at Cambridge 9 May 1839;
offered the bishopric of Salisbury 1854; author of _Vestiges
of ancient manners and customs discoverable in modern Italy
and Sicily_ 1823; _Sketch of the Reformation in England_ 1832,
_29 ed._ 1875; _The acquirements and principal obligations and
duties of the parish priest_ 1856, _6 ed._ 1872; _A history of
the Christian church during the first three centuries_ 1856,
_4 ed._ 1869; _On the right use of the early fathers, two
series of lectures_ 1857, _2 ed._ 1858. _d._ Cambridge 17 June
1855. _Rev. J. J. Blunt’s Two introductory lectures on the
study of the early Fathers, 2 ed._ 1856 _v-xii_; _Quarterly
Review civ_, 151–70 (1858); _Guardian 10 May 1882 pp._ 665–66;
_Cambridge Chronicle 23 June 1855_.
BLUNT, RICHARD. Ensign 3 Foot 31 Jany. 1787; lieut. col. 23 Aug.
1799 to 1814; colonel 66 Foot 25 March 1835 to death; general 23
Nov. 1841. _d._ Barnfield house, Southampton 25 Dec. 1859 aged 90.
BLYTH, BENJAMIN HALL (_son of Robert Brittain Blyth of Edinburgh,
iron merchant_). _b._ Edinburgh 14 July 1819; civil engineer at
Edin. 1850 to death; engineer in chief to Great North of Scotland
railway 1852; acted as adviser and engineer at various times to
most of the principal railway companies in Scotland; constructed
many important lines; extensively employed as a parliamentary
engineer; A.I.C.E. 1844, M.I.C.E. 1851. _d._ North Berwick near
Edin. 21 or 22 Aug. 1866. _Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxvi_,
556–60 (1867).
BLYTH, EDWARD, _b._ London 23 Dec. 1810; a druggist at Tooting 1832;
contributed to _Magazine of natural history_ from 1833; curator of
museum of Asiatic Society of Bengal at Calcutta Sep. 1841 to 1862;
contributed to the _Indian Field_, _India sporting review_ and
_Calcutta Review_; contributed to _Land and Water_ and the _Field_
under nom de plume of Zoophilus; one of the first zoologists of
his time, and founder of the study of that science in India, _d._
27 Dec. 1873. _Memoir prefixed to Catalogue of mammals and birds
of Burma by E. Blyth in Journal of Asiatic Society of Bengal extra
number Aug. 1875, portrait._
BLYTHE, DAVID (_son of Charles Blythe of Yetholm, Roxburghshire,
king of the gipsies who d. 1861_). _b._ Wooler, Northumberland
1795; king of the gipsies at Yetholm 1861 to death. _d._ 17 Feb.
1883. _bur._ in Chirnside churchyard. _David Blythe the gipsy
king, a character sketch by Charles Stuart, M.D._ 1883,
_portrait_; _All the year round vi_, 69–72 (1861).
BLYTHE, JOHN DEAN (_son of Peter Dean Blythe of Ashton-under-Lyne_).
_b._ Ashton-under-Lyne 12 April 1842; worked in a factory;
reporter on a local paper; learned Latin, French and Spanish;
edited a manuscript magazine circulated amongst members of a
self-improvement society at Manchester; killed by accidental
discharge of a revolver 5 Feb. 1869. _A sketch of the life and a
selection from the writings of J. D. Blythe_ 1870.
BOAG, JOHN. _b._ Highgate in parish of Beith, Ayrshire 7 Jany. 1775;
matric. at Univ. of Glasgow 1797; joined the body of independents
or congregationalists who in 1812 formed themselves into
Congregational Union of Scotland; held small charges in Isle of
Man and Helensburgh; pastor in village of Blackburn,
Linlithgowshire; author of _A popular and complete English
dictionary 2 vols._ 1848; _The imperial lexicon of the English
language 2 vols._ 1853, and of a number of pamphlets on questions
of the day. _d._ Craigton house, Linlithgowshire 15 Sep. 1863.
BOAG, SIR ROBERT (_son of the preceding_). _b._ 22 Aug. 1809;
alderman of Belfast; knighted at Dublin Castle 30 Jany. 1877.
(_m._ 1834 Violet only dau. of John Stevens of Glasgow). _d._
Glenorchy house, Newington, Edinburgh 7 Nov. 1877.
BOASE, CHARLES WILLIAM (_3 son of Henry Boase 1763–1827, managing
partner in banking house of Ransom, Morland and Co. Pall Mall,
London_). _b._ 6 Knightsbridge, London 8 June 1804; ed. at Helston
gr. sch.; entered Dundee New Bank 1821, manager 1828; cashier of
Dundee Banking company 13 March 1838, manager 1840 to 20 Feb. 1864
when it was merged in Royal bank of Scotland, managed the branch
to 21 Dec. 1867 when he retired on a pension; secretary and
treasurer of Watt Institution Dundee 1824–36, founded the museum
to which he largely contributed; received freedom of Dundee 1 Sep.
1831 for his exertions in aiding to procure it a liberal
constitution; one of the trustees elected by the creditors when
town of Dundee became bankrupt 1842; a member of the Catholic
Apostolic or Irvingite church 1836, erected a little chapel in
Bell st. Dundee which the congregation used until 30 Nov. 1867
when church in Constitution road was opened; ordained to the
priesthood Oct. 1836 and to the Episcopate Aug. 1851; had charge
of the Evangelistic work throughout Scotland Dec. 1867 to death;
author of _Tithes and Offerings_ 1865; _A century of banking in
Dundee_ 1867; _The Elijah ministry_ 1868; _Notes on doctrine and
ecclesiastical facts_ 1868; _Physical a part of theological
science, 2 ed._ 1874. _d._ Albury, Surrey 7 June 1872. _W.
Norrie’s Dundee Celebrities_ (1873) 397–99; _An account of the
families of Boase or Bowes privately printed_ (1876) 13–14.
BOASE, GEORGE CLEMENT (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 127 Sloane
St. Chelsea 25 Aug. 1810; ed. at Exeter gr. sch. and Queen’s coll.
Cam. 1828–29; cashier of Dundee Banking company April 1840 to Feb.
1864; sub-manager of Dundee branch of Royal Bank of Scotland Feb.
1864 to 21 Dec. 1867 when he retired on a pension; a member of the
Catholic Apostolic church 1836, ordained to the priesthood Oct.
1836, had charge of the church at Brighton 1868 to death; author
of _To husbands, fathers and brothers specially those of the
labouring classes being a warning against prevailing delusions by
a Brother_ [_G. C. Boase_] 1848; _The restoration of Apostles_
1867; _Thoughts and memories in verse by G. C. B[oase] 1876_. _d._
Fairlie house, Bridge of Allan near Stirling 23 July 1880. _An
account of the families of Boase_ 15–16.
BOASE, HENRY SAMUEL (_brother of the preceding_). _b._ 6
Knightsbridge, London 2 Sep. 1799; ed. at Tiverton gr. sch.;
studied chemistry in Dublin 1815–17 and medicine in Univ. of Edin.
1817–21, M.D. 1821; sec. to Royal Geological Society of Cornwall
at Penzance 1822 to 1829; collected from every part of Cornwall
specimens of the rocks 1829–31 which were deposited in Geological
Museum at Penzance; a partner in the Penzance Union Bank 1823 to
April 1838 when bank was dissolved; lived in Burton crescent,
London 1837–38; F.R.S. 4 May 1837; managing partner in firm of
Turnbull Brothers of the Claverhouse Bleachfield, Dundee June
1838, this firm became Boase & Co.; took out a patent for
‘improvements in the process of drying organic substances’ 17 July
1855; author of _A treatise on primary geology_ 1834; _The
philosophy of nature_ 1860; _An essay on human nature_ 1865; _The
second Adam, the seed of the woman. Anon._ 1876; _A few words on
evolution and creation_ 1883; wrote a minute geological account of
each parish in _The parochial history of Cornwall by D. Gilbert 4
vols._ 1837. _d._ 5 Magdalen place, Dundee 5 May 1883. _Dict. of
Nat. Biog. v_, 282–3 (1886); _An account of the families of Boase_
8–10.
BOATE, EDWARD WELLINGTON (_eld. son of George Boate of Waterford_).
Edited the Waterford _Chronicle_ and Wexford _Guardian_; a
reporter for the Times in the House of Commons; went to New York;
worked on the _Irish American_, _Evening Express_, and other
journals; joined the 42nd New York Volunteers 1863; taken prisoner
at battle of Bristo station and sent to Belle Island; comr. and
chairman of delegation of 95,000 men to negotiate with Abraham
Lincoln for an exchange of prisoners; a reporter on the _Sunday
Mercury_ to Sep. 1871. _d._ King’s county hospital, Flatbush,
Pittsburgh, Philadelphia 4 Oct. 1871 aged 49.
BOAZ, THOMAS (_eld. son of Richard Boaz of Scarborough,
ship-carpenter_). _b._ Scarborough 10 Aug. 1806; studied at
Theological seminary Newport Pagnel 1829–33; ordained at
Manchester 18 June 1834; Congregational minister of Union chapel
Calcutta Dec. 1834 to Dec. 1858; LLD. King’s college Aberdeen
1849; sole editor and proprietor of _Calcutta Christian Advocate_,
May 1839 to 1853; one of editors of _Calcutta Christian Observer_
1835–47. _d._ 6 Priory grove, West Brompton, London 13 Oct. 1861.
_The Mission pastor, memorials of Rev. T. Boaz by his widow_
(1862), _portrait_.
BOCHSA, ROBERT NICOLAS CHARLES. _b._ Montmédi, France 9 Aug. 1789;
harpist to Emperor Napoleon 1813; may fairly be said to have
revolutionised harp playing; fled to London having been detected
in extensive forgeries 1817; tried in his absence and condemned to
12 years imprisonment; joint manager with Sir G. Smart of the Lent
Oratorios 1822, sole manager 1823; professor of the harp and
general sec. at R.A. of Music 24 March 1824 to 1827; conductor at
the King’s theatre 1826–32; ran away with Sir H. R. Bishop’s wife
1839; visited every country in Europe except France; went to
United States 1847; appeared at Prince of Wales’s theatre Sydney
22 Dec. 1855; wrote an oratorio called _Le déluge universel_, 8
operas, a Method and many solo pieces, _d._ Sydney 7 Jany. 1856.
BODDAM, EDWARD TUDOR. Entered Madras army 11 Dec. 1841; lieut. col.
staff corps 11 Dec. 1867; M.G. 16 June 1876. _d._ 12 Feb. 1880
aged 55.
BODDINGTON, HENRY JOHN (_2 son of Edward Williams of London,
artist_), _b._ London 1811; exhibited pictures at the R.A. 1837 to
death; member of Society of British artists 1842, exhibited about
10 pictures every year at their gallery in Suffolk st. 1842 to
death, his paintings are mostly taken from quiet English country
life. (_m._ 1832 Clara Boddington whose name he adopted). _d._
Barnes, Surrey 11 April 1865.
BODE, REV. JOHN ERNEST (_son of Wm. Bode of the General Post Office,
London_). _b._ 1816; ed. at Eton, the Charterhouse and Ch. Ch.
Ox., Hertford scholar (the first) 1835, B.A. 1837, M.A. 1840;
student and tutor of his college 1841–47, censor 1844; R. of
Westwell Oxon. 1847–60; select preacher 1848; surrogate 1850–60;
Bampton lecturer 1855; contested chair of poetry in Univ. of Ox.
1857; R. of Castle Camps, Cambridge 1860 to death; author of
_Ballads from Herodotus_ 1853, _2 ed._ 1854; _Lecture on the
English formularies_ 1855; _Short occasional poems_ 1858; _Hymns
from the Gospel of the day_ 1860. _d._ Castle Camps rectory 6 Oct.
1874.
BODEN, GEORGE (_youngest son of John Boden of Edmonton lodge,
Derbyshire_). _b._ 22 Jany. 1816; ed. at Rugby and Trin. coll.
Cam., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1845; barrister I.T. 30 April 1841, bencher
30 April 1862, treasurer 1876; recorder of Stamford Feb. 1855;
recorder of Derby 7 May 1859 to death; Q.C. 6 Feb. 1862. _d._ 7
Queen’s gardens, Hyde park, London 16 Feb. 1880.
BODEN, SAMUEL STANDIGE. _b._ Hull 11 April 1826; clerk in South
Eastern railway office at Nine Elms, London 1849; edited _British
Chess review_ 1854–55, contributing a large portion of its
contents; conducted chess department of _The Field_ 24 April 1858
to Jany. 1869; exhibited 5 landscapes at Suffolk st. gallery
1865–73. _d._ Tavistock st. Bedford sq. London 13 Jany. 1882.
_Westminster Papers ix_, 89 (1876), _portrait_; _Illust. news of
the world viii_, 164 (1861), _portrait_.
BODENHAM, CHARLES THOMAS (_only son of Charles Bodenham of Rotherwas
park, near Hereford 1758–1826_). _b._ 15 Feb. 1783; a member of
the Roman Catholic board; chief supporter with Rev. Thomas Weld,
afterwards Cardinal, of Dr. Milner in opposing the concessions
which it was proposed to make in regard to the oath. (_m._ 25 Nov.
1810 Elizabeth Mary 5 dau. of Thomas Weld of Lulworth Castle,
Dorset, she was _b._ 2 July 1789, and was author of _Mrs. Herbert
and the villagers or familiar conversations on the principal
duties of Christianity 2 vols._ 1853, _10 ed._ 1878). _d._ 5 Dec.
1865.
BODINGTON, GEORGE. Ed. at Magdalen coll. sch. Oxford; studied at St.
Bartholomew’s hospital; L.S.A. 1825; surgeon at Erdington near
Birmingham to 1843; proprietor of Driffold house asylum, Sutton
Coldfield, Warws. 1836–68; warden of Sutton Coldfield 1852–54;
author of _A letter on a case of Asiatic cholera addressed to
Central board of health, London_ 1831; _Essay on the treatment and
cure of pulmonary consumption_ 1840, in which he anticipated by
many years the modern views on the treatment of Phthisis. _d._
Sutton Coldfield 5 Feb. 1882 in 83 year. _Medical times and
gazette i_, 241 (1882).
BODKIN, JOHN JAMES (_eld. son of Thomas Bodkin of Kilcloony, co.
Galway_). _b._ 1801; M.P. for town of Galway 6 May 1831 to Dec.
1832, and for co. Galway 15 Jany. 1835 to 23 July 1847. _d._
Calais Jany. 1882.